Spent yesterday trying (w/ my students) to figure out the
popularity of
Carroll John Daly. Editor of Black Mask Boys (William F.
Nolan) trashes
him even as he asserts his place at the origin of the
hardboiled
phenomenon. My kids absolutely (and hilariously) tore Daly
apart. Of
course they'd just started reading Maltese Falcon, which can
make even
competent writing look hack by comparison. M-
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Michael D. Sharp Email: msharp@umich.edu
Department of English Lang. and Lit. Phone: (313)
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: (313) 763-3128
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, DCardKJHS wrote:
> Hell's Bells! I should have had the good sense to use
the reference sources
> at my command before popping off with my
semi-plausible off the top of my head
> explanation of this particular usage of "johnson".
Apologies to all who
> thought I sounded like a snickering schoolboy
uttering "nasties" in class.
> Dennis
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