I don't know...most of Holloway's current catalog is pretty
sub-Gold Medal even.
Old School Books was pretty cool, but even cooler was Payback
Press. I don't think their stuff is available in the U.S. any
more, but the last time I was in Ireland, I saw a few new
Payback editions, so maybe they're still publishing
there.
David Moran
Mark Sullivan wrote:
> The recent mentions of Goines and Heard have made me
a bit curious about
> Black hardboiled fiction. I've only read a
smattering -- Himes's Harlem
> Cycle, plus Run Man Run, a few Iceberg Slims, Nathan
Heard's Howard
> Street, Vern Smith's Jones Men, Walter Mosley, Ronin
Ro's Street Sweeper
> (bad, and not good bad). I've gathered a number more
that I have not
> read -- a few by Goines, several of the Old School
Books authors like
> Pharr, Cooper and Perry, a bunch of blaxploitation
novelizations and
> Holloway House books, particularly by Readus.
Anyway, I was wondering
> if anyone could help me figure out a reading list to
get me started,
> with recommendations about the best authors and
their best books.
> Perhaps it could be broken down into categories like
the following:
>
> Vintage Black hardboiled/noir
>
> Contemporary Black hardboiled/noir
>
> Whites writing Black hardboiled/noir
>
> Maybe they could be further broken down into
literary and trashy
> examples, with trashy a classification of genre not
quality -- not that
> there's a clear line between the two, but I'd put
most Holloway House
> books towards the trashier end, seemingly trying to
be a Black Gold
> Medal.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't
show up.
> # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say
"unsubscribe rara-avis" to
> # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the
digest version.
> # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
.
-- # Plain ASCII text only, please. Anything else won't show up. # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 26 Mar 2004 EST