Re: RARA-AVIS: iceberg slim ?

From: William Denton ( buff@pobox.com)
Date: 16 Mar 2002

On 16 March 2002, Robison Michael R CNIN wrote:

: i was looking at the harry crew books on amazon and it recommened
: iceberg slim. has anybod read him? if yes, did you like him? would
: you describe it as hardboiled or noir? and what about donald goines's
: _whoreson_? same questions.

We read Iceberg Slim's PIMP in May 1999, then in June we read WHORESON. If you check the archives you'll see some discussion about Slim and Goines, black American writing, etc. Slim's stuff is pretty raw.

Bill

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