Crumley, of course, started out as a "quality Lit" sort of
guy out of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. As a
young man, he wrote short stories and was well acquainted
with three masters of the form, Bill Kittredge, Raymond
Carver, and Andre Dubus. But in the intro to MUDDY FORK, I
believe it was, he says something about moving away from
shorter fiction to the novel (and ultimately to crime
fiction). My guess is that the stories Dennis collected in
WHORES and those subsequently collected by Dan Gerber into
MUDDY FORK were written prior to 1973. I know some of them
had appeared in literary journals previously. Others had not
been set into type until Dennis brought out WHORES and so,
therefore, did not appear in print until the '80s, although I
suspect they were written several years earlier.
My speculation on the matter....
Later....Kip
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