The Dick Gibson Show
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The Dick Gibson Show is a 1971 novel by Stanley Elkin, an American writer known for comic and inventive fiction. It was nominated for the National Book Award. Dick Gibson is a radio announcer who drifts from station to station across America for decades, finally hosting a late-night call-in program. His listeners include a memory expert, a burning pharmacist, an orphaned child millionaire, and con men. The novel anticipated talk radio and its obsessions.
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