So then any one of these so-called "hard-boiled" authors who
didn't live a hard life then isn't really writing
"hard-boiled" fiction then ... sorry, but I don't buy it. The
writer doesn't matter more than the content. Actually a Black
blues writer who lived a hard life would have an easier time
writing the blues than anyone who didn't live a hard life ...
making their blues require even more effort than the person
with first hand experience.
Juri Nummelin wrote:
> You're right, but I'd classify only original black
blues as hardboiled, since
> it was born out of violence and attempts to be a
man. The white blues has just
> been a little too, well, cozy for me. They play too
well to be truly
> incorporated into the bad hardboiled
world.
-- volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
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