At 10:53 PM 21/02/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>It's February 22, Morley Callahan's birthday today.
Go out and K.O. a
>blowhard.
>
><
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today-ct.asp?id=2/22/2005>
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today-ct.asp?id=2/22/2005
>
>Writers beating the crap out of each other, now
that's more like it.
Callaghan wrote in many styles, publishing No Man's Meat in
1931. If I recall correctly, Callaghan considered this a
breakthrough in his writing, but it was too raw and explicit
to be a popular success at that time, in Canada at least. No
Man's Meat was republished in 1978 in a combined volume with
The Enchanted Pimp, the latter novella as fine an example of
Canuck Noir as any I've read.
There may be more, but as a slow reader I've thus far tracked
Callaghan mostly as the mythic Hemingway slayer rather than
through his works. My loss indeed.
>Funny though, a lot of hard-boiled writers are sorta,
well, wimpy. And
>the ones that try to cultivate a hard image are
usually phoney
>baloneys.
I'm trying to decide whether to take that personal,
Smith.
Best Kerry
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