ALL IN THE FAMILY
by Charlie Finch



I have been friends with the Barnaby Conrad family for over 40 years, starting with Barnaby Conrad III, my Yale classmate and author of Absinthe and Ghosthunting in Montana. For many years, Barney, the son of writer Barnaby Conrad (himself author of 38 published books), has been the center of a throwback group of reactionary bohemians in San Francisco which includes art writer and dealer Richard Polsky, Martin Mueller of the Modernism Gallery and conceptual artist John Keats.

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