The writer Dale Herd has always rejected fame. If not out-and-out hostile to it, he’s never chased it, instead concentrating on tight prose, he’s preferred to observe the life around him.

He’s certainly lived that life to the fullest.

So says Tobias Carroll in the Brooklyn Rail Vol. 1:

“A lot can happen to a writer’s work in four decades. Some refine an existing style, while others push at boundaries they may have established.”

“With a strong command of dialogue and a penchant for characters navigating fraught emotional, sexual and economic terrains, Herd’s work can be magnificently discomfiting.”

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“Many of Herd’s characters live on the outskirts of society. In some cases, this is by choice; in others, it’s out of necessity, whether economic or emotional.”