This is an article from the L.A. Times. An excerpt:
| The hard-boiled tradition that serves as Woods' model
has no black
| cops or black private eyes -- or law-abiding black
people at all. "You
| got black victim, black perpetrator," Woods says. But
that familiar
| formula has been turned on its head to great success.
Booksellers and
| book collectors -- both excellent barometers of emerging
trends --
| call black crime fiction the genre's hottest
movement.
I haven't read it all yet, but it looks interesting,
especially given
the current readings on the list.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.vex.net/~buff/ : Caveat lector.
# # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.