ECFowler (e.c.fowler@worldnet.att.net)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:33:34 -0400
Hello all...just discovered this list and looking forward to
the discussion. I've been a fan of Jim Thompson after finding
the Black Lizard re-issues of his work in the late eighties.
I devoured these and fell in love with the style, but for
whatever reasons put it aside. In any event, over the last
year I've discovered for myself that part of the genre best
exemplified by Thompson and have so far been reading some of
the early antecedents such as Hammett and Chandler. But what
I am fascinated with is the Thompson type work such as Cain,
Woolrich and Willeford, as well as some of the current stuff
by Ellroy and Vachss.
Incidently, where I come from literarily is from big,
so-called difficult writers such as Pynchon, DeLillo, Gaddis,
McEllroy, Foster Wallace and that ilk.
Presently, I'm having an exciting time going through the
collection in The Library of America's pricey, but worth it,
two volume anthology Crime Novels, with selections by Cain,
McCoy, Anderson, Fearing, Gresham, Woolrich, Thompson,
Highsmith, Willeford, Goodis and Himes. It's a wonderful
collection and I can't think of a better introduction to the
genre for someone not previously exposed to it.
Thanks for maintaining the list.
Tribe
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