Re: RARA-AVIS: Future books to read
James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:22:01 -0600 (CST)
At 08:44 PM 3/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>: >Loved _Rage In Harlem_!! What's next on the list
Bill?
>:
>: Wait! Don't give up on discussing it. I've found a
copy!
>
>Let us know what you think.
>
>: And to whet your whistle, since we seem to be into the
black side of
>: hardboiled, what with Himes and Mosley on the reading
list, what do
>: you folks think of Gar Haywood's Aaron
Gunner?
>
>I don't think I've ever heard of Haywood, but I'm
willing to give it a
>shot if there's something we can all pick up. Any titles
readily
>available in print that you can suggest?
>
>Barring that, any other suggestions? Johnathan Latimer?
Richard
>S. Prather? Maybe something hardboiled but not a
mystery? O'Brien's
>"Checklist" in _Hardboiled America_ (which I have up
at
><URL:
http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/biblio/checklist.html>
lists
>some books by James T. Farrell, John dos Passos and even
Faulkner and
>Graham Greene. I don't want to try Faulkner, but if
people see
>something on there that looks interesting then we might
as well give
>it a shot.
Yeesh, Farrell? You mean like _Studs Lonegan_?. I don't
really
buy that as even ancestral hardboiled. Faulkner is tough (to
read, I mean)
but at least he bears some realtion to the genre in
_Sanctuary_ and maybe a
couple of others. I guess I would recommend McCoy's _They
Shoot Horses,
Don't They?_, assuming it's still in print. Or a Willeford or
a Cain.
James
James Michael Rogers
jetan@ionet.net
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