Dr. Don Carpenter has been in radio a long time, so he knows what getting fired feels like. This wasn’t it. People were patting him on the back and offering high-fives Wednesday after he dropped an on ...
Literary history is filled with posthumous discoveries, but the work of Don Carpenter is a bona fide treasure. The Berkeley native was a writer’s writer, whose 1966 novel on the Bay Area beat scene, ...
BLADE OF LIGHT by Don Carpenter. 181 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $4.50. Dealing with an inarticulate character complicates a novelist’s job. In his second book, Don Carpenter (Hard Rain Falling) ...