I read Ken's standalone American Skin more as a dark satire
than a noir.
Ed
> On 5/18/07 10:28 PM, "
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net"
> <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> > William wrote:
> >
> > "Lately a lot of people describe Ken Bruen's
work as
> neo-noir or noir.
> > Do you read Bruen and agree with that? I've
four or five of
> his books
> > but noir? I don't think so."
> >
> > I'd say it depends upon the book. The
standalone novels --
> Rilke on
> > Black, Hackman Blues, Her Last Call to Louis
Macniece,
> London Boulevard,
> > Dispatching Baudelaire, and Bust, his
collaboration with
> Jason Starr
> > (although that won't be a standalone soon) --
are definitely
> noir. I'd
> > label the Brant books hardboiled, but not noir.
The Jack
> Taylor books?
> > I'd say they're both. Just ordered the most
recent of
> those, Cross,
> > from the UK.
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