I read Sallis's "Moth" and Nathanael West's "The Day of
the Locust" last
> week. West wasn't a crime writer but I think he fits
in here. I know the
> short Paul Duncan book on "Noir Fiction" is well
regarded by some on the
> list and he devotes a few pages to West (mainly
"Miss Lonelyhearts".) As I
> type I have a DVD of the 1970s film version of the
"The Day of the
> Locust" paused in another room.
>
Today I've read a couple of Hemingway short stories, "A
Clean, Well-Lighted
> Place" and "The Light of the World". Currently on
loan from the library but
> not yet read is a recent humourous Westlake novel
called "The Road To Ruin"
> and Cain's "The Postman Always Rings Twice". Also a
DVD of the film "The
> Big Heat". I'm also rereading Thomas Hardy's "Jude
the Obscure", which
> isn't noir but certainly deals with a doomed
individual.
>
Stephen Burridge
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