--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote:
>
> Well, here's one crime novel that deals with the
beat
> counter culture. Or at least the author meant it
to:
>
>
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=A%20Diet%20of%20Treacle
>
> There are many not-so-old crime novels that deal
with
> the bee-bop jazz scene, which the beat
movement
> emerged from.
>
> I'd say the absents of beats in golden-age
crime
> stories has more to do with the fact that many of
the
> authors, themselves, were from that scene
and
> perceived that readers were neither interested
or
> accepting of that culture. These authors wrote
for
> money, after all. They wrote books they
believed
> people want to read, not necessarily what
they,
> themselves, want to write.
David Halberstam discusses some of this in his history of the
fifties.
His telling leans towards nostalgia, but he does gather
a huge amount of material on the era. It's a good read. He
discusses Spillane and the original paperback golden
era.
Best,
mrt
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