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The Review That Ended a Career-and Shaped a Writer

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By Tod Goldberg
| Alta Journal
In the January 8, 1961, edition of the New York Times Sunday Book Review, the author and critic E.B. Garside called the climax of The Man on Watch, Tom Filer’s debut novel, “thunderously improbable” and bemoaned Filer’s style as being as “flat as the theme is Gothic.” Filer wouldn’t sell another novel for the rest of his life. Not that I knew any of this when I first heard about Tom.
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Only Way Out | Bookreporter.com

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By Tod Goldberg
| Bookreporter Talks To
As an avid reader, my tastes generally focus on history and biography, as well as fiction that includes legal-themed novels, sports and historical epics. But there are times when I like to take a break from heavy reading and enjoy a less demanding experience. So occasionally I venture into a black comedy thriller with a cast of hustlers, schemers and other characters who can only exist on the pages of a crime noir novel.
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Tod Goldberg’s ‘Only Way Out’ Is a Hilarious Crime Hustle

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By Tod Goldberg, Paula Woods
| Alta Journal
For more than 20 years, Tod Goldberg has guided readers on a literary journey to the dark side of crime in desert noir fiction that spans the Salton Sea to Nevada. His Gangsterland novels, including 2023’s Gangsters Don’t Die, are essential additions to a noirish gangster subgenre that dates back to the 1920s; the subgenre was epitomized by Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and carried on by recent novels like Don Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy.
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