Barry Ergang
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Retired from retail sales of high-end audio and video equipment, my specialty--and preference--being two-channel (stereo) music systems |
| Location | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Former Managing Editor of FUTURES MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY MAGAZINE and First Senior Editor of MYSTERICAL-E, my fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications, print and electronic. I'm notorious among writing and non-writing friends for my "groaners," short stories that end with crazy puns. |
| Favorite Movies | Among many others-- Almost anything starring Humphrey Bogart: the epitome of cool; The Night of the Hunter; Duck Soup; the Hopalong Cassidy films starring William Boyd (Hoppy rocks!); The Thin Man series; Flash Gordon serials. |
| Favorite Music | Jazz (the real thing, not that Muzak-like "smooth" garbage) Favorite singers: Frank Sinatra & Ella Fitzgerald Some classical A few rock tunes here and there |
| Favorite Books | The Long Goodbye--Raymond Chandler; The Sound and the Fury--William Faulkner; The Lords of Discipline--Pat Conroy; The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald; the Shell Scott mysteries by Richard S. Prather; The Tenants--Bernard Malamud; The Glass Key--Dashiell Hammett; Nothing Like the Sun--Anthony Burgess; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay--Michael Chabon |