Re: RARA-AVIS: pelecanos

Words from the Monastery (jackechs@erols.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:43:14 -0400 At 05:48 PM 8/24/98 , kip.stratton@natinst.com wrote:

>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
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