Jim Thompson mixed social and political commentary in his
works (Killer Inside Me, Pop. 1280 is filled with it), and he
only produced some of the best crime fiction ever
written.
-Dave
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RARA-AVIS: Someone who doesn't like Pelecanos
>From an interview with Trevor Maviano, at
http://www.sexandgutsmagazine.com/maviano.htm
| But these are all guys that at least know their way around.
Someone like
| Pelecanos, I call him the shoe salesman of crime fiction.
His rhythms
| are wrong. He tries awful hard to be gritty. That's how it
comes off to
| a guy like me, is tryin.... I find his stuff to be
incredibly contrived,
| in that it is trying to expand the genre into new areas,
but I don't
| [want] to hear preaching about racial division in the
United States
| mixed in with my crime fiction. I just want crime. If I
want to read
| something political, I'll read non-fiction for Christ's
sake.
I think that's pretty much wrong on all counts. Maviano later
contradicts himself, saying, "My view of crime is different
than some people's. I feed off a social conflict model, that
I think Marx inspired quite a bit. I see crime for profit as
being a political thing."
Bill
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