We just made a new two book deal at Bantam. Rucka's new book,
SHOOTING AT
MIDNIGHT, will be out in the fall of this year. He's
intentionally heading
into very noir territory with a slightly different style of
story featuring
Atticus and company, and Bantam is all for it. They are
repackaging his
books, touring him, and really giving support to this young
writer on the
rise. Keep on the lookout for his work.
Best,
David
DHS Literary, Inc.
6060 N. Central, Suite 624
Dallas, TX 75206
214-363-4422, x100
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RARA-AVIS Digest Tuesday, March 30 1999 Volume 02 : Number
694
In this issue:
RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Agent to RARA-AVIS
RARA-AVIS: Black Pudding
Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
Re: RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
RARA-AVIS: Harris
Re: RARA-AVIS: Harris
Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
RARA-AVIS: RE: Agent to RARA-AVIS
Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Re: RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Re: RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:48:02 EST
From: FICTWRI@aol.com
Subject: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
Has anyone seen the movie Shoot the Piano Player based on
Goodis's _Down
There_??? I read somewhere this movie was made by a French
director so I
would
guess it's not in English.
John Weaver, editor Page One
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:00:03 -0500 (EST)
From: ANONYMEINC@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) was made by Francois Truffaut
and is
deservedly considered one of the classics of the French New
Wave. I
looked it up at reel.com and it looks like it is about to be
reissued on
video, available 4/27. Recommended.
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:20:41 -0800
From: "Christopher Bahn (Kelly Services Inc)"
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Subject: RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
I suppose it's not hardboiled, but there's lots of blood and
guns and crazy
people, so I'll ask anyway: Has anyone heard news of when
Thomas Harris
might finish his next book, which I heard (years ago) was
going to pick up
where "Silence of the Lambs" left off? I did some
websleuthing a few months
ago, but couldn't come up with much, except that Harris is
apparently nearly
as reclusive as Salinger.
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:24:43 -0500
From: "Joe Hoffman" <ljhoffman@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Agent to RARA-AVIS
Hi David:
If you like dark fiction, have you read Dark Matter by
Garfield
Reeves-Stevens.? And if so, what did you think?
It is probably the darkest book I have ever read, and I slept
with the
nightlight on for days afterwards.
Anita Hoffman
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From: David Hale Smith <dhs@dhsliterary.com>
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:34 AM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: RE: Agent to RARA-AVIS
Doug:
Thanks for your post and your questions. As an agent who
actively seeks out
crime fiction, I see a ton of stuff claiming to be hardboiled
fiction, but
not only is it not hardboiled, it is not even good. Among
other clients (I
handle both fiction and nonfiction), I represent Greg Rucka,
Gary Phillips,
Richard Abshire, Clay Harvey and the
quickly-becoming-infamous-on-the-list,
Boston Teran. They are not all hardboiled authors, of course,
but in this
market I just try to look for stuff I can sell and if
possible, also be
proud to have on my client list.
I am a huge fan of hardboiled and noir fiction, counting
authors such as
Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Jim Thompson, Chester Himes,
James Ellroy,
Charles Willeford, James Crumley, Elmore Leonard, Walter
Mosely, James Lee
Burke, Ross Macdonald and Lawrence Block (mostly his early
Scudder novels)
among my favorites not just in crime but in all of fiction.
The darker the
better for me. I also read and dig a lot of suspense and
thriller fiction
in a dark vein, such as Thomas Harris, John Sanford, Stephen
Hunter, and
Jeffrey Deaver, to name a few.
Honestly, presenting fiction to publishers as hardboiled in
this market is
like meeting your prom date's father with bourbon on your
breath and a
roscoe snugged in your belt, then eyeballing her gams and
belting dad in the
beezer. It makes for a great story, but not a great
impression. When I
presented God is a Bullet, I didn't call it hardboiled
although the female
hero of this book certainly is that. I did call it a "dark
thriller" and
said it contained classic noir elements. I also pitched it as
a book that
transcends genre classification and stands on its own as a
work of superb
fiction. Knopf is publishing it as "Fiction," and I think it
deserves that,
but I think most of the writers I mentioned above deserve
that, too. But
you may also notice that Knopf has worked hard to get BULLET
into book
stores that specialize in crime because they know that there
is a great core
audience for fiction with a hard edge.
There's my three cents.
Best,
David
DHS Literary, Inc.
6060 N. Central, Suite 624
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:29:15 -0500
From: "Joe Hoffman" <ljhoffman@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Black Pudding
As most of you know from my posts, this is a completely new
venue for me,
and I am thoroughly enjoying it.
MT asked if anyone had read Black Pudding... I went to one of
my newly
purchased pulp books received over the weekend and read it
last night.
Great!
Does anyone worry about details in these stories, though.
After killing two
people in the car, with blood and gore I am sure over
everything, he walks
to the house to find Hilda and her husband. Not concerned
that anyone who
see his dishelved state, or did the darkness of the night
disguise that?
Anita Hoffman
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:41:54 -0500
From: Nicole Leclerc <nicolel@cam.org>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
The movie was indeed one the classics of the time. For some
reason the
French title "Ne tirez pas sur le pianiste" (Don't Shoot the
Piano Player)
was translated into the exact opposite in English. Since I
don't know the
original title of Goodis' work, I have no idea which came
first. I remember
seeing it way back then and really enjoying it, particularly
the rare
acting performance of singer Charles Aznavour as the pianist.
The story is
now somewhat blurry in my mind but some images are still
vivid - a sign of a
good movie in my opionion. I second Mark's
recommandation.
Nicole Leclerc
nicolel@cam.org
Mark Sullivan wrote:
> Shoot the Piano Player (1960) was made by Francois
Truffaut and is
> deservedly considered one of the classics of the
French New Wave. I
> looked it up at reel.com and it looks like it is
about to be reissued on
> video, available 4/27. Recommended.
>
> Mark
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:20:41 -0800
From: "Christopher Bahn (Kelly Services Inc)"
<a-cbahn@microsoft.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
I suppose it's not hardboiled, but there's lots of blood and
guns and crazy
people, so I'll ask anyway: Has anyone heard news of when
Thomas Harris
might finish his next book, which I heard (years ago) was
going to pick up
where "Silence of the Lambs" left off? I did some
websleuthing a few months
ago, but couldn't come up with much, except that Harris is
apparently nearly
as reclusive as Salinger.
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:08:58 EST
From: Jeanheller@aol.com
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Thomas Harris
Tom Harris just turned in the mss for HANNIBAL. Delacorte
hopes to publish
in
June. A real rush job.
Jean Heller
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:32:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Crider <abc@wt.net>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Harris
Here's the whole story on Thomas Harris, from PW online.
Sorry about
occupying so much bandwidth.
Bill Crider
Break out the fava beans and Chianti:. Serial killer
Hannibal
"the Cannibal" Lecter returns in Hannibal, Thomas Harris'
finally
delivered, long-awaited sequel to The Silence of the Lambs,
his
blockbuster bestseller that has sold some 10 million
copies
worldwide since its 1988 publication.
Today, Delacorte announced it will publish the new book,
a
480-page, $27.95 hardcover, on June 8 in a one-day
national
laydown. Based on just one day's response from accounts,
Dell,
which holds U.S. and Canada hard/soft rights to the
book,
projected that a 500,000-copy first printing is looking
likely and
"will probably go up," said president and publisher Carole
Baron.
The book is also a Main Selection of the Book of the
Month
Club with an audio version to be published simultaneously
by
Random Audio.
According to Delacorte, the new novel opens seven years
after
Dr. Lecter's stunning escape from the authorities, the climax
of
the earlier book, as one of his earlier victims uses FBI
Agent
Clarice Starling, also featured in Silence, as bait to draw
the
doctor out in the open to wreak revenge. Baron wouldn't
divulge
much more of the plot, but did note that a scene of the book
takes
place in Florence, which brings to mind the rumors that
popped
up in 1994 when Harris attended the Milan-based trial of
Pietro
Pacciani, a farmer accused of being a serial killer. Harris
was seen
chatting extensively with the detective who launched
the
investigation, fueling speculation that Pacciani might be
the
subject of his next book. Baron would only say that "none
of
what you've read about the plot before in the papers is
true," and
that Harris "has written the kind of rich, complex book
that
booksellers will love to sell."
Baron, who said she knew for the last six months or so that
the
manuscript might be coming this year, received Hannibal from
the
reclusive Harris on March 23. It has been quite a wait; over
a
decade ago, she signed Harris to a reported $5,750,000
two-book
deal, of which this sequel is the first book (BOMC's deal
was
also at this time). Harris's first two books, Black Sunday
(1973)
and Red Dragon (1981) were published by Putnam in
hardcover,
then reprinted by Bantam; Baron acquired the paperback
rights
for these books for Dell at the time of her deal. St.
Martin's is the
U.S. publisher of The Silence of the Lambs; after the news of
the
sequel delivery, SMP announced a 300,000 re-release of a
mass
market edition of the book, to feature a new cover, as well
as a yet
undetermined new printing of a trade paperback edition of
the
book, which had been issued last year at the book's
tenth
anniversary.
According to Harris's literary agent, Mort Janklow, all
those
involved in the Academy Award winning 1991 film
adaptation
of The Silence of the Lambs--director Jonathan Demme,
actors
Anthony Hopkins (Lecter) and Jodie Foster (Starling)--have
just
been sent a copy of Hannibal. The rights background for
this
book, even for Hollywood, is particularly complex. Dino
De
Laurentiis has some claim on the Lecter character since
he
produced Manhunter, the film adaptation of the Red
Dragon,
in which the character of Lecter first appears. De
Laurentiis
previously hammered out a one-picture agreement with
Orion
for its release of its The Silence of the Lambs
adaptation.
Additionally, due to a 1992 out-of-court settlement, De
Laurentiis
must give Universal to first negotiation/last refusal
opportunity
to bid on domestic rights to this sequel; if De Laurentiis
chooses
not to exercise his rights to produce the sequel, Universal
will
have right to take its place.--Judy Quinn
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:02:49 -0600
From: Mari Hall <found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Harris
Bill Crider wrote:
>
> Here's the whole story on Thomas Harris, from PW
online. Sorry about
> occupying so much bandwidth.
Here's a web-site from the newyork times about it
http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/033099harris-sequel.html
>
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:19:20 -0400
From: rikke & hanne kesten <rbkhbk@bcn.net>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
Nicole: Goodis' original title was "Down There." Truffaut
bought screen
rights to that book and created his own title in French - "Ne
Tirez Pas
le Pianiste". When the film was released in the States the
English
language version was called "Shoot The Piano Player" which
became the
title on the reissued paperback edition.
I have no idea how they went from "Don't Shoot...." to
"Shoot...."
but I suspect either a lousy translation or a marketer with
an eye to a
more succinct title. Helen Scott wrote a wonderful and very
thorough
book on Truffaut and his work. Perhaps it contains some
clarification on
the titling of this film.
- --steve
Nicole Leclerc wrote:
>
> For some reason the French title "Ne tirez pas sur le
pianiste" (Don't
>Shoot the Piano Player) was translated into the exact
opposite in
>English. Since I don't know the original title of
Goodis' work, I have >no
idea which came first.
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:26:23 EST
From: BaxDeal@aol.com
Subject: RARA-AVIS: RE: Agent to RARA-AVIS
David
your client Greg Rucka is the cat's pajamas too.
John Lau
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:37:31 -0800 (PST)
From: tosh@loop.com (Tosh)
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
>Has anyone seen the movie Shoot the Piano Player based
on Goodis's _Down
>There_??? I read somewhere this movie was made by a
French director so I
would
>guess it's not in English.
>
Yeah, it is a film classic. Made by Truffault (sp)
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:38:53 -0500
From: "Joe Hoffman" <ljhoffman@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Just got Murder Inks Spring catalog in the mail today, and
see they have
listed their favorite hard-boiled as well as traditional
mysteries. Do you
agree with their list, and if not, who should be added,
especially to the HB
list.
Anita
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 22:25:14 -0500 (EST)
From: William Denton <buff@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
On 30 March 1999, Joe Hoffman wrote:
: Just got Murder Inks Spring catalog in the mail today, and
see they
: have listed their favorite hard-boiled as well as
traditional
: mysteries. Do you agree with their list, and if not, who
should be
: added, especially to the HB list.
Who's on the list? I'm most of us haven't seen it.
Bill
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:15:06 -0500 (EST)
From: ANONYMEINC@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Top Hard-Boiled Mysteries
Before I type their list, I thought I'd point out that it is
headed
"Murder Ink's FAVORITE Hard-Boiled Mysteries" (emphasis
added), not
BEST. And although it isn't noted, I think it's pretty
apparent that
they limited themselves to one book by author. In
alphabetical order:
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
The Deep Blue Good-By by John D. MacDonald
The Chill by Ross Macdonald
Ice by Ed McBain
Nick's Trip by George Pelecanos
Killing Orders by Sara Paretsky
Mortal Stakes by Robert B. Parker
Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
Personally, I've read all of them except Ice and Postmortem.
Right off
the bat, I'd say the list looks a bit tilted toward recent
writers and
in-print writers. And as much as I like Pelecanos, I don't
think he'd
make my cut for the top 25. Robert B. Parker certainly
wouldn't. I
would certainly place The Hunter/Point Blank/Payback by
Richard Stark,
which is missing, way above both. Likewise, Box Nine or
Wireless by
Jack O'Connell, Street of No Return by David Goodis and,
maybe, GBH by
Ted Lewis. And, of course, God is a Bullet. Just joking on
that last;
I'm only about 50 pages into it.
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