> Chandler always maintained that he was writing
literature ...
So does Ellroy. And Stephen King. And, so?
But much like reading works through a Marxist critic or a
feminist critic or a postmodern critical perspective, one can
make the text do whatever one wants, pretty much. It gets
silly. And so is trying to take all our favorites from a
variety of fields and say "a tiny bit hardboiled in this
paragraph from this book...."
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