Bruce Townley (btownley@sirius.com)
Wed, 1 Dec 1999 07:44:00 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 at14:29 Doug Bassett sent: Re: RARA-AVIS:
Sensitive detectives
[quoting Brian Lawrence]
>>
>> One more question, and I'll shut up for a
while.
>> Does hardboiled have to be a
>> PI story?
>
>No, not at all. Bukowski's stuff, for example,
seems
>to me to be very hardboiled and is
virtually
>crime-free (unless you consider public intoxication
to
>be a crime). William Burroughs first novel, Junky,
is
>also a fine hardboiled book.
Ah, two excellent suggestions. Luc Sante's non-fiction work,
LOW LIFE, now also strikes me as hardboiled.
Bruce T. = btownley@sirius.com
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