RARA-AVIS: Re: ICEBERG SLIM, AGAIN

From: Keith Alan Deutsch ( keithdeutsch@earthlink.net)
Date: 25 Apr 2000


Dear Roger,

Look up more recent titles. He gets better and better. A phenomenom, often unmentioned, too rarely read.

Keith

Roger Dowdy wrote:

> Keith Deutsch < keithdeutsch@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >In a recent, somewhat garbled posting (sorry) I mentioned Iceberg slim
> as my pick for >the greatest overlooked, black, hard boiled, outlaw
> memoir novelist of the 20th
> >Century.
>
> I'd have to agree. _Pimp_ was probably one of the most raw and genuine
> books I've read in quite a while... right up to the last twenty pages or
> so and then I thought it lacked a bit.
>
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