Re: RARA-AVIS:the exhibit HHB .. and more

Marcel Bernadac (bernadac@club-internet.fr)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:19:08 +0200 > ........
>This event is held in conjunction with the exhibit "Hard-Boiled Books,"
>a retrospective which features the works of Mr. Pelecanos, as well as
>other important hard-boiled and noir authors from Maryland: Dashiell
>Hammett, James M. Cain, and William Lindsay Gresham. This exhibit is
>currently on display in the Katherine Anne Porter Room at McKeldin
>Library, and the online version is accessible at
>http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/RARE/797hmpgW.html
>James Stephenson

If -like me- you can't go there, then the online version
will have to suffice.
For those who like old covers of Hard-Boiled Books this web site
deserves to be seen.
Tasty Pudding.

>I'm twenty-seven years old and (as though you couldn't tell from the name)
>female, which I mention mainly because it's my impression that the gender
>definitely, and the age possibly are unusual in this group. (Yes? No?)
>In any case, I'm looking forward to this a lot. ,
>Vicky Esposito-Shea

Personnal message to Vicky.
I wish I could reassure you because there is some truth in what you say :
- I'm sixty-two years old but I don't feel so old !
- Among eight thousand books I've put in my bookcase or stacked
on the floor only a quarter are hard-boiled novels.
- I've *one* wife, two daughters, four grandchildren, three cats, one dog,
(not still parrots and budgies)... and they are all female !
Welcome !
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