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Hi, everyone: 

 I just got the announcement for this discussion group and have just signed
on through majordomo@icomm.ca
Really looking forward to sharing my hardboiled enthusiasms.  I've just
finished a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville
and am in the process of trying to find a job teaching same at a university.
I would love to work up a course that involves hardboiled writing. My
favorite writer is most definitely Jim Thompson. I just finished A Hell of a
Woman and thought it right fine, though my favorite so far has been Pop.
1280.  I am saving The Killer Inside Me for a rainy day. I would love
suggestions about what Thompson to pick up next. (I've already read
Swell-Looking Babe and Savage Night).  I also love Horace McCoy, especially
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, I Should Have Stayed Home, and They Shoot Horses, Don't 
They.  I also dig Raymond Chandler.  I've found Dashiell Hammet a little
dry, and have mixed feelings about Andrew Vachs. I might  pick up James M.
Cain next, or perhaps more Thompson. Any suggestions?

At this point, I have two questions.  I really loved Charles Williams' The
Hot Spot, but can't find anything else by him to read. Any suggestions?
Also, what's going on among academic/scholarly/critical circles with regard
to this sort of material.  Has any "must-read" stuff appeared, yet? (For me,
the more theoretical, the better. I especially like Lacanian readings). 

Here's a hot tip from me:  Pick up Vicki Hendricks' Miami Purity, available
on Black Lizard.  Really razzle-dazzle stuff.  The narrator is a woman whose
packin some deliciously wicked (and witty) class-politics. Does anyone know
if Vicky Hendricks plans to do more books with this narrator? Let's hope so. 

 T. R. 

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