>I liked the article too, although I'm sure Jim Crumley
would perk up his
ears at this
>line: "It wasn't so much the classic '30s detective
authors like Hammett
that got
>him, it was the '50s heirs like Charles Willeford and
Crumley, who wrote
about
>working stiffs in fucked-up situations."
>Crumley writing crime fiction in the '50s? Let's see,
he must have been
in junior
>high about then. Pretty precocious, I'd
say....
The Washington City Paper is mainly young wannabees ...
what's hilarious is
they have the gull of running articles now and then about the
Washington
Post and its accuracy in reporting ...
----
volente Deo,
Anthony
jackechs@erols.com or ICQ #3717510
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4640/
"I am an innocent man / Oh yes I am / An innocent man"
- Billy Joel
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