The Sunken Fang Society

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By Lud Gutmann ’55

Published Jan. 21, 2016

The signature piece in this short story collection is about a rattlesnake-sacking contest in West Virginia. Other stories center on the trial of Jack Ruby and tales of people battling illness. Gutmann is a professor of neurology at the University of Iowa and the author of two previous nonfiction books.

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