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	Hubert Selby Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hubert's father, Hubert Selby Sr., was a merchant seaman and a former coal miner from Kentucky.
		His son, Hubert Jr., dropped out of school, and at the age of 15 was able to persuade the recruiters to allow him to join the merchant marine.
		Selby died in Highland Park, Los Angeles, CA on April 26, 2004 of chronic obstructive pulmonary lung disease.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hubert_Selby (2043 words)

	Remembering Hubert Selby Jr.
		Selby's books were viewed - at the time of their publication - as a threat to the moral fibre holding society together.
		Selby wrote about the life he lived, the place where he lived and the people he knew (thugs, pimps, transvestites, prostitutes, queers, addicts, workers, etc.).
		What's more, Selby cared about his characters and empathized with them faults and all - and those faults ran the gamut: criminal, anti-social, vile and despicable; it didn't matter, he didn't cut his characters adrift in his fiction, rather he held them close to his chest and intimately examined what made their brutal lives tick.
	www.danforthreview.com /features/essays/selby.htm (811 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in Brooklyn, Selby dropped out of school at age 15 and joined the Merchant Marine.
		For the next decade, Selby remained bed-ridden and frequently hospitalized with a variety of lung related ailments.
		Selby was married three times and had four children.
	en.freepedia.org /Hubert_Selby%2C_Jr..html (198 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Obituaries \| Hubert Selby Jr
		In the story Tralala, the most wretched and brilliant of the six narratives in Last Exit, the 18-year-old drunken slut, who by the end is left ruined, gang-raped and bleeding from all orifices, is an invention beyond morality, yet close enough to social truth, and not just in the waterfront districts of Brooklyn.
		Selby was the son of a Kentucky coalminer, who had settled in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn and served in the merchant marine.
		As Hubert Jr, his son was an object of merciless teasing in a world of "Mikeys" and "Vinnies" and "Tonys"; the nickname "Cubby" did not offer him much protection.
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,11617,1204871,00.html (1199 words)

	Print Article: Author Hubert Selby Jr dead at 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hubert Selby Jr, the acclaimed and anguished author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, has died of a lung disease, his wife said.
		Suzanne Selby said her late husband was kind and generous but in recent years suffered from depression and would occasionally launch into rages.
		Selby continued to work on screenplays and teach at USC until he was hospitalised last month.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/04/27/1082831550714.html (415 words)

	HUBERT SELBY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Selby arbeitete auch als Drehbuchautor sowie in kleineren Rollen als Filmschauspieler.
		Selby wurde alkohol- und drogenabhängig, was ihn später ins Gefängnis brachte.
		Selby war dreimal verheiratet und hatte vier Kinder.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/H/Hubert_Selby (243 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. dies
		LOS ANGELES -- Hubert Selby Jr., the acclaimed and anguished author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, died Monday of a lung disease, his wife said.
		Suzanne Selby said her late husband was kind and generous but in recent years suffered from depression and occasional rages.
		Selby continued to work on screenplays and teach at USC until he was hospitalized last month.
	www.suntimes.com /output/obituaries/cst-ftr-xselb28.html (344 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Hubert Selby Jr
		Selby was hailed as the new voice of the "underground" and his admirers compared the anguished rage and despair of his writing to that of Dostoevsky.
		Hubert Selby Jr was born on July 27 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a merchant seaman.
		It received, Selby said later, "the greatest reviews I've ever read in my life", although he confessed that he thought it "the most disturbing book ever written by a human being".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/28/db2801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/04/28/ixportal.html (920 words)

	Morphizm.com -- R.I.P.: Hubert Selby, Jr.
		Hubert Selby, author of hallowed works like Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, cheated death for 50 years or more.
		For those who knew Selby only through his novels, it may be hard to reconcile the chronicler of urban tragedy with the writing professor nicknamed Cubby, a handle he adopted in his youth (Hubert wasn't the safest name to have in the Brooklyn hood where he grew up).
		Diagnosed in 1950 with turberculosis at the age of 18, Selby's treatment cost him the removal of several ribs, part of one lung and the collapse of the other.
	www.morphizm.com /features/alongride/v1/ish2/along_hubert.html (642 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Requiem for a Dream writer dies at 75
		The novelist Hubert Selby Jr, author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, has died at the age of 75.
		Selby co-wrote the screenplay and was working on new screenplays until he was hospitalised last month.
		Selby is survived by his wife, Suzanne Selby, four children and 11 grandchildren.
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1204492,00.html (401 words)

	Hubert Selby
		Selby's best-known work, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (1964), was the subject of an obscenity trial in England and banned in Italy.
		In 1967 Selby was arrested for possession of heroin.
		Selby, panic seems to be the prevailing emotion of contemporary life, the nexus of blurred identity and sexual violence.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /selby.htm (1178 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1946, he was diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis; he spent the better part of the next three and a half years in the hospital, during which time doctors collapsed one of his lungs, removed part of another, and took out ten ribs.
		Selby's subsequent novels, The Room (1971) and The Demon (1976) continued to plumb the ravaged psyches of human beings at the end of their emotional tethers, and were hailed by critics.
		Selby has lived in Los Angeles since 1969, and has taught creative writing at USC in addition to writing screenplays and teleplays.
	www.cinema.com /people/4462/hubert_selby_jr/biography.phtml (528 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Selby, Hubert Jr.
		Selby refused to imply that the characters might have been anything but what they are; he left no room for hopefulness.
		Selby's narrative approach and voice are very different from what his first two novels may have led critics and reviewers to expect from him.
		Selby's fourth novel, Requiem for a Dream (1979), is on the surface a return to the landscape and characters of Last Exit to Brooklyn.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4002 (1371 words)

	village voice > books > by Lauren Sandler
		In a life as gritty and pummeled as that of his characters, most notably in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), this merchant marine-turned-literary enfant terrible spent his younger years in a tuberculosis ward as 10 ribs and a lung and a half were gradually removed from his frail body.
		After his experiences of war at sea in the '40s and Red Hook in the '50s, no asphalt was too filthy for his stereoscopic magnifying glass, no inner torment too appalling or sympathetic.
		But he blew his sudden fame and fortune on booze and smack, and eventually fled to Los Angeles, where he spent his last 30 years living off government checks and odd jobs, pumping gas while his work was dissected in nearby ivory towers.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0418/sandler.php (229 words)

	Hubert Selby, Jr:The Demon,The Room:Book reviews by Robert Couteau
		Selby doesn’t advocate brutality so much as portray it; he records the brutality of modern life.
		Perhaps, that’s what is most shocking in Selby: the awareness, in the reader, of a tender vision lurking beneath the prose and that this tenderness is the very thing proclaiming—in such harsh and brilliant tones—the abject condition of our world.
		The tale is told with Selby’s impeccable artistry of the obscene, using the most vulgar, debased rhythms of argot with a musical sensitivity and an empathic awareness of the downtrodden and forgotten in society.
	www.tygersofwrath.com /selby.htm (931 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. -- wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hubert Selby was born on July 27, 1928, in Brooklyn, the son of Adalin and Hubert Selby Sr., a coal miner from Kentucky who served in the merchant marine for several years until his son was born.
		Selby overcame his addictions and moved to the West Coast, where he wrote several other books, including "The Room" (1971), "The Demon" (1976), and "The Willow Tree" (1998).
		Selby was married three times, most recently in 1969 to Suzanne Victoria Selby, who survives him, along with four children.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/27/BAGIL6BL0H1.DTL (462 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Last Exit to Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Selby has a great talent in making you the watcher, who needs a movie when he creates one in your own mind, in his vernacular, in his eschewing all grammatical correctness, in rambling on and on and on, but it's okay - because you want him to carry on and on and on.
		I am a fan of Hubert Selby Jr and appreciate that this was an incredibly important work, which had a very powerful effect when it was finally published.
		Hubert Selby's death earlier this year will leave a great loss so i recomend to everyone to read the stunning novels he left behind.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747549923 (1016 words)

	Hubert Selby, Jr (1928-2004) \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Selby is the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, (tried for obscenity in England and supported by, among many others, Samuel Beckett and Anthony Burgess), Requiem For a Dream, Song of the Silent Snow.
		Hubert Selby used to joke that, though The New York Times didn’t review his books, he was pretty fucking sure they’d run his obituary.
		Selby preferred to be called “Cubby” despite the decidedly un-baby-bear-like, gleefully sepulchral remnant of a body that he carried around on his twisted-coat-hanger bones.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/32776 (1349 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hubert Selby Jr.
		Cover of the 1988 Grove Press reissue of Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr.
		State school is an expression used in the United Kingdom and other countries apart from the United States to distinguish schools provided by the government from public schools which are in fact private institutions.
		An obituary is a notice of the death of a person, usually published in a newspaper, written or commissioned by the newspaper (rather than written by relatives), and usually including a short biography.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hubert-Selby-Jr. (4371 words)

	Hubert Selby, Jr. \| Official Website and Bio
		Even The New York Times would be compelled to recognize "Selby's place in the front rank of American novelists," to see in his work "the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's," and to say that, "To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America."
		Selby's second novel, The Room (1971), considered by some to be his masterpiece, received, as Selby said, "the greatest reviews I've ever read in my life," then rapidly vanished leaving barely a trace of its existence.
		The novel remains his most famous, and infamous, book; and in 1997 Selby recorded the whole of it, forthcoming in 1998 as a multi-CD boxed set under the aegis of Henry Rollins, who worked with Selby on the 1990 CD Our Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven and in 1995 released Selby's Live in Europe 1989.
	www.exitwounds.com /Hubert-Selby-Jr-2.htm (649 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr., author of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn,' dead at 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hubert Selby Jr., the acclaimed and anguished author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream," died Monday of a lung disease, his wife said.
		Selby died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles, said his wife of 35 years, Suzanne Selby.
		Suzanne Selby, 58, said her late husband was kind and generous but in recent years suffered from depression and would launch into rages at times.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/04/26/obituary2246EDT0169.DTL (632 words)

	Alibris: Hubert Selby Jr.
		by Shelby, Hubert, Jr., and Selby, Hubert, Jr.
		Selby is the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, and Song of the Silent Snow.
		Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.?"Financial Times" Author of controversial cult classic, "Last Exit to Brooklyn," Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hubert_Selby_Jr. (566 words)

	A Conversation with Hubert Selby, Jr.
		Selby: When I’m thinking about the book I’m working on, the ultimate goal is always, of course, just simply to write the best book I can write and to understand the book that’s been given to me to write.
		Selby: Well, I’ll tell you, man. Her reaction to Last Exit was one of the greatest compliments I’ve ever gotten.
		Selby: Yeah, I guess he would be, because this was maybe ‘31 or ‘32 that it was drawn up.
	www.tygersofwrath.com /hubert_selby.htm (11583 words)

	Hubert Selby Jr. \| books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hubert Selby Jr., whose gritty tales of New York City street life, such as ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' and ''Requiem for a Dream,'' earned him fame late in life, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles at age 75, the Associated Press reports.
		Selby, who survived a bout of tuberculosis as a youth, struggled against respiratory illness for the rest of his life, and on Monday, he succumbed to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, wife Suzanne told AP.
		Selby didn't earn a living from his writing until the last two decades of his life, as ''Last Exit'' was adapted into a cult hit movie in 1989 that starred Jennifer Jason Leigh.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,630196_5_0_,00.html (479 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Requiem for a Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hubert Selby's 1978 novel "Requiem for a Dream" must certainly rank as one of the most effective depictions of addiction ever written.
		Selby instills Tyrone with a noticeable street accent, and Sara is often alone when we see the sections dealing with her, so do not worry about the format of the novel.
		Selby's prose is difficult to get into at first, unique in that it is a meandering and strewn-together style not often seen or read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560252480?v=glance (2871 words)

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