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Subject: RARA-AVIS Digest V2 #698
RARA-AVIS Digest Thursday, April 1 1999 Volume 02 : Number
698
In this issue:
RARA-AVIS: Announcement: John D. MacDonald's swan song
Re: RARA-AVIS: Announcement: John D. MacDonald's swan
song
RARA-AVIS: Thomas Perry, Stephen Hunter, Greg Rucka
RARA-AVIS: Re: Afro-american
Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
RARA-AVIS: Re: Afro-american
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:33:27 -0500
From: MT <matrxtech@sprintmail.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Announcement: John D. MacDonald's swan
song
After a number of years -- too many, say his numerous fans --
John D.
MacDonald's last masterpiece, the incandescent _CMYK_ will
finally see
the light. In typical noir fashion, the manuscript,
long-rumored to
exist, turned up among John D.'s archived tax returns. It
comprises 428
typed pages, with copies of Schedules A, B, C, and D
separating the four
sections or "acts" as they were titled by MacDonald. So far,
only
MacDonald's former agent has read the manuscript, but several
noted
authors have already offered blurbs.
"A fucking masterpiece, buy it quicksville or die now
by
self-Clintonization!" says James Ellroy, celebrated author of
_The Black
Dahlia_ and other best-selling novels.
"Tops RGB, Pantone Hexachrome, and any other kind of
harboiled process
you can imagine, now or ever", enthuses Tom Clancy, a
worl-famous author
of best-selling techno-thrillers.
"Imagine an evening streaked with purple, the color of torn
plums, thin
white streaks of lightning in the row of black clouds that
hover low on
the watery horizon, a bolt of lightning hitting a cottonwood
tree, a boy
and his father fishing in a homemade pirogue out in the bayou
among the
dead cypress, drinking Dr. Pepper and talking about a book.
Let it be
this book" rhapsodizes James Lee Burke, author of the
best-selling
series featuring Dave Robicheaux.
The publication date has tentatively been set for April 1,
2000.
Remember, you heard it here first.
mt
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:52:04 -0500 (EST)
From: ANONYMEINC@webtv.net (Mark Sullivan)
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Announcement: John D. MacDonald's
swan song
Mario,
You stayed up past midnight just to post that, didn't you?
Just to make
it complete, though, let me feed you a straight line, what
does CMYK
stand for?
Mark
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 03:09:52 EST
From: BaxDeal@aol.com
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Thomas Perry, Stephen Hunter, Greg
Rucka
>Some of this list is obviously stupid, and some is
clearly >correct. Who's
Thomas Perry? If I've seen his books, I don't >remember
them,
In another life, Perry was a TV writer/producer. Today he
writes some of
the
best action/suspense thrillers on the market. The Butcher's
Boy is a master
assassin who takes on the people who hired him in the book of
the same name.
10 years later, he makes a stunning reappearance in SLEEPING
DOGS. Perry's
more recent series: VANISHING ACT, DANCE FOR THE DEAD, SHADOW
WOMAN and THE
FACE CHANGERS feature a woman named Jane Whitefield who helps
people
disappear. These 4 stories, as well as the 2 Butcher's Boy
books are
absolute
page turners.
While the Whitefield series are not necessarily hardboiled
due to the
compassion of the protagonist, the bad guys are BAD FUCKING
GUYS. As for
the
Butcher's Boy, well, he's even badder.
Another terrific contemporary thriller writer is Stephen
Hunter. His
trilogy
of POINT OF IMPACT, DIRTY WHITE BOYS and BLACK LIGHT read
like movies. No
surprise in that he writes movie reviews for the Baltimore
Sun. A number of
his books have been optioned for pictures.
Not long ago we had a discussion on how books are padded
today. Neither
Perry
nor Hunter write skinny novels. But all of the stories I've
mentioned are
tightly plotted and bereft of tangential elements. No
favorite cookie
recipes
or musings on the virtues of red or white wine. Just a lot of
richness and
detail. And great action setpieces.
And again I'd like to plug the 2 books in Greg Rucka's
Atticus Kodiak
series:
KEEPER and FINDER. Kodiak is a professional bodyguard.
Stories are tight,
suspenseful and rife with versimilitude.
John Lau
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:04:47 -0800
From: Geraldine Kudaka <gkudaka@csi.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Afro-american
Bengt Eriksson:
The following I had clipped from a Sister in Crime newletter.
Sorry for the
formatting, but in the free version of Eudora, don't know how
to simply
reformat this post. Looking at the OldNorton site, I would
have never
thought of some of the writers -- like Ishmael Reed -- as
being crime
writers. I like Ish's work, but thought of him as a
literary/mainstream
writer who used crime in his plots. May help if you get the
program, or
whatever the conference is giving out, and contact some of
the writers
directly.
It's time to mark your calendar for the
4th Annual Chester Himes Mystery Writers Conference and
Awards
Program.
The theme this year is
LAW AND ORDER MIRRORED IN THE BLACK MYSTERY
Featured Writers in Alphabetical order: Jacqueline Turner
Banks,
Evelyn Coleman,
Margaret Cuthbert, Nora DeLoach, Robert Greer, Terris
McMahan
Grimes, Penny
Mickelbury, Walter Mosley and Gary Phillips. There will
be
participants from the fields of
Law and Order too. This conference, the best kept secret in
mystery
writing, is Saturday
May 15, 1999 from 9-6:30 p.m. at the Oakland Museum
Admission is
$45 with box
lunches available for $10 each
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:46:19 -0800
From: Geraldine Kudaka <gkudaka@csi.com>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: David Goodis
Francois Truffaut. Classic new wave film. Very good. French
"New Wave" was
one of the most innovative cinema of its time. Jean Luc
Godard, Claude
Chabrol, Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, etc. Influenced by
theoretical basis most
exemplified by Rivette's writing and Goddard's films. Other
writers whose
works were adapted for the French screen were Charles
Williams, Cornel
Woolrich, Dolores Hitchens, Ellery Queen, and others. Even
painters and
artist were very influenced by American noir.
At 09:48 AM 3/30/99 EST, you wrote:
>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
>"Every book begins with page one"
> http://members.aol.com/FICTWRI/pageone.html
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:04:47 -0800
From: Geraldine Kudaka <gkudaka@csi.com>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Afro-american
Bengt Eriksson:
The following I had clipped from a Sister in Crime newletter.
Sorry for the
formatting, but in the free version of Eudora, don't know how
to simply
reformat this post. Looking at the OldNorton site, I would
have never
thought of some of the writers -- like Ishmael Reed -- as
being crime
writers. I like Ish's work, but thought of him as a
literary/mainstream
writer who used crime in his plots. May help if you get the
program, or
whatever the conference is giving out, and contact some of
the writers
directly.
It's time to mark your calendar for the
4th Annual Chester Himes Mystery Writers Conference and
Awards
Program.
The theme this year is
LAW AND ORDER MIRRORED IN THE BLACK MYSTERY
Featured Writers in Alphabetical order: Jacqueline Turner
Banks,
Evelyn Coleman,
Margaret Cuthbert, Nora DeLoach, Robert Greer, Terris
McMahan
Grimes, Penny
Mickelbury, Walter Mosley and Gary Phillips. There will
be
participants from the fields of
Law and Order too. This conference, the best kept secret in
mystery
writing, is Saturday
May 15, 1999 from 9-6:30 p.m. at the Oakland Museum
Admission is
$45 with box
lunches available for $10 each
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