> Matthew Bruccoli is better known as a Fitzgerald
critic from
> the academic community, but when called upon he can
usually say some good
> stuff regarding Chandler and Hammett. Philip Durham
and David Madden have
> both written interesting things, and I imagine that
several of the people on
> the list have encountered them in the collection of
essays titled _Tough Guy
> Writers Of The Thirties_ (actually, Bruccolli may
have piece in that one too).
Indeedy-deedy-do. _Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties_ edited
by David
Madden (Southern Illinois University Press, 1968) is an
essential
collection. I have a copy of the 1977 reprint that I picked
up via the
internet for about $10.00.
Bruccoli's contribution is a short piece on John O'Hara's
_Appointment
in Samarra_.
The collection has essays on Hammett, The _Black Mask_
school, James M.
Cain, Hemingway, Horace McCoy, Chandler and Jim Thompson,
among others.
Bruccoli is also, I think, a publisher (and bibliographer of
Chandler?),
and I believe is as associate of Richard Layman, compiler of
the Hammett
bibliography and author of the Hammet biography,
_Shadowman_.
Eddie Duggan
<www.ejmd.mcmail.com>
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