Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author Louisiana State Univ. $22.50 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2732-2
Rubin, distinguished professor of English emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has authored or edited 50 books and is founder of the much respected Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. This memoir is the intelligent, often funny...
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author Louisiana State Univ. $22.50 (139p) ISBN 978-0-8071-2808-4
Rubin's loving tribute to his paternal ancestors—"a remarkable group of people"—is as close to perfect as a family story gets. In gentle, matter-of-fact prose, Rubin, now 77 and one of the great lights of Southern letters,...
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author Univ. of Missouri $29.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8262-1608-3
In this slim yet satisfying volume of essays, Rubin, the founder of Algonquin Books, weighs in with great, sometimes world-weary wisdom on writers, writing and the many ills and exhilarations one experiences while plying the sometimes murky trade of
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-87113-508-7
Even readers who deem themselves confirmed landlubbers will warm to this charming memoir. Rubin, founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, author and professor of English, has had an affinity for boats all his life. He doesn't require long voyages;
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author Longstreet Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56352-233-8
Writing with the precision of a scholar embellished by the imagination of a natural raconteur, Rubin (The Golden Weather) offers an accomplished novel that treats two eternal themes: love and greed. The setting, Charleston, S.C., in 1940, is fully...
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author University of Washington Press $14.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-295-97530-6
Rubin is best known in the publishing community as the founder of Algonquin Books and the eminence grise of Chapel Hill's literary renaissance. But he isn't only to be admired for exposing readers to Larry Brown, Lewis Nordan, Kay Gibbons and Jill...
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author University of Washington Press $30 (214p) ISBN 978-0-295-97529-0
Rubin is best known in the publishing community as the founder of Algonquin Books and the eminence grise of Chapel Hill's literary renaissance. But he isn't only to be admired for exposing readers to Larry Brown, Lewis Nordan, Kay Gibbons and Jill...
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Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr., Author, Scott Mlyn, Photographer, Scott Mlyn, Author Taylor Publishing Company (TX) $13.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-87833-605-0
Freelance photographer Mlyn's lackluster black-and-white baseball snapshots do not portray energized close plays, home runs or managers' arguments with umpires but, instead, document pre-game atmospherewhen the players are warming up and kidding...
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