At 11:39 PM 4/19/00 -0400, Tribe wrote:
>
>None of the PoMo guys have ever done any hardboiled,
with the exception of
>early Burroughs. I'm hoping that Robert Coover, who
has already done a
>series genre-benders, might someday tackle
hard-boiled.
No kidding. _The Universal Baseball
Association, J. Hilary Waugh Prop._ is one of the best novels
I have ever read.
John Gardner certainly wouldn't have
considered himself post-modern but he did do one take on the
hardboiled detective book, published posthumously. Of course,
he was a big fan of genre writing anyway.
James
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