RARA-AVIS: Mickey Spillane

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Subject: RARA-AVIS: Mickey Spillane
From: "DOUGLAS GREENE" <dgg100f@hamlet.bal.odu.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 10:24:05 EST
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I don't know whether I should feel guilty or not, but I like Mickey 
Spillane's books.  I grant the case against him--a near-fascist 
attitude, a haphazard sense of plotting, Neanderthal attitudes 
toward women--

and yet . . .

and yet . . .

Spillane's books have a genuine earthiness to them, and working-stiff 
-as-author feel that make them somehow less contrived than books by 
intellectuals like Chandler and Ross Macdonald  (yes, I love their 
books too, but often their education shows through where it needn't). 
 Spillane also has a marvelous narrative drive and an occasional 
poetic sense of description.

Was it Spillane who once said that no one in his books drinks cognac 
or has a mustache, because he can't spell those words?

Spillane is, himself, a nice guy.  Some years ago, I wrote to him and 
he kindly inscribed my copies of his books.

Doug
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