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Influenced in equal parts by the noir of Hammett,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe deeply personal short stories of Saroyan, and the barn-burning surrealism of the Marx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrothers, he wrote stories of The Old Detective, a shamus who hung out in a tatty pink-plaster bungalow telling tales of exotic babes shooting craps in a barrel; wood-peckers who solved mysteries; mountaineers who worked laterally across miles of urban city streets; and housewives of Fresno who abandoned their homes and dug tunnels below their neighborhood. The 18 stories in this collection cover all this territory and more, delving into Phil's love of dogs, the Pacific Northwest, state fairs, and school lunch menus. A must-have for anyone who's enjoyed his work in or out of the Firesign Theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePHILIP AUSTIN was born in Denver, Colorado in 1941 and grew up in Fresno, California. He attended Bowdoin College, Fresno State College, and UCLA. In the 1960s he was a member of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and was Program Director for Drama and Literature at KPFK-FM, where in 1966 he met his future collaborators in the Firesign Theatre—Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Proctor. The Firesign Theatre went on to write and perform more than 23 albums over 40 years, several of which featuring Austin’s best-known character, Nick Danger. The group’s album Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was inducted into the Library of Congress’ Recording Registry in 2005. 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