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Hubert locked his monsters in the closet

08-Feb-08

“I know the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer”. With exactly these words began Hubert Selby’s Jr. career. Hailing from Brooklyn, the novelist decided to change the course of literature, which he actually did when publishing his first novel Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964). “It will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America […]