RE: RARA-AVIS: Pelecanos: new one

From: Maura McMillan ( mmcm@azstarnet.com)
Date: 22 Aug 2000


i think it's insulting to say that pelecanos uses homosexuality only as some kind of tag, some short cut he'd take to build character. that's not what his work is about.

 

At 01:52 PM 8/22/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>That's a shame ... I never would have guessed "Mr. P" was one of those ...
>there's a lot more to the story and it ain't only white cops either ... it
>doesn't have anything to do with anyone being a nigger either, but it has a
>lot to do with becoming jaded by the vast numbers of a particular race
>committing crimes in the DC area.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
>Behalf Of Peter Walker
>Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:38 PM
>To: rara-avis
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: Pelecanos: new one
>
>
>Well, I was only talking to Mr P the
>other day and he had this to say about
>his new book:
>"I got a book coming out called Right As
>Rain. The sub-text is that it's about
>racism in DC. We've had several
>incidences in the last few years where
>white cops have shot black cops in the
>line of duty. They roll up on a scene,
>they see a black guy reaching into his
>pocket, to get his ID, and they shoot
>him because a black cop out of uniform
>is just a 'nigger'. It's about this
>middle age black PI who used to be a cop
>and he teams up with a cop who was
>thrown of the force for that. It's new
>characters. It was time to get out of
>that bar!"
>Actually this forms part of an interview
>with Mr P I did for Tangled Web and
>since I know this fact will have you
>rushing to that very site for more, here
>is the URL:
>www.twbooks.co.uk
>Since meeting the big man I've gone out
>and got all his books and have just
>finished "King Suckerman" which,
>if I recall correctly, Kev Smith
>described as a great crime novel.
>Well I loved it, anyway.
>Incidentally, Eddie Duggan, if you
>are still out there, Mr P was none too
>happy about your comments in CT re
>the sexuality ofthe bad guys!!
>Pete
>
>
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