Re: RARA-AVIS: Themes of the Months

From: Alan C. Rollins ( acrollins@polaris.net)
Date: 15 Sep 2001


You know that Mr. Greenleaf has retired John Marshal Tanner with the
"Ellipsis".

Alan C. Rollins
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" < buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" < rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 12:30 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Themes of the Months

> Last updated: 15 July 2001
>
> Currently on summer hiatus! We will return in September with a tour of
> four American cities.
>
> Mark Blumenthal will be your guest thememaster for:
>
> Sep 2001: Los Angeles (John Shannon, Raymond Chandler, Michael Connelly,
> Robert Crais, James Ellroy, Walter Mosley, Stuart M. Kaminsky,
> Roger L. Simon, William Campbell Gault, Richard S. Prather,
> Ross Macdonald)
> Oct 2001: San Francisco (Dashiell Hammett, Joe Gores, Stephen Greenleaf,
> Bill Pronzini's Nameless)
> Nov 2001: Boston (Dennis Lehane, Robert L. Parker, George V. Higgins,
> Jeremiah Healy, Jerome Doolittle)
>
> Mark Sullivan will be guest thememaster for the post-Bouchercon month:
>
> Dec 2001: Washington, D.C. (George Pelecanos, James Grady, Robert Dietrich
> [E. Howard Hunt], Ross Thomas)
>
> People who actually live in the cities are encouraged to speak up.
>
> Jan 2002: Manuel Ramos tentatively scheduled for a month of Latino
> noir and hardboiled writing
>
> Having a theme for a month, where people can read any book by a particular
> author or in a certain series or on a certain topic, is easier all around
> than the old book-of- the-month readings we'd do. It brings up a lot more
> discussion on the list and it doesn't tie everyone to a certain book that
> may be hard for them to find. I encourage everyone to read something
> related to the theme of the month and mention it on the list. All the
> regular RARA-AVIS talk goes on as well, of course.
>
> Suggestions for future themes include: the continuing question of
> hardboiled women writers, Barry Gifford, Patricia Highsmith, W.R. Burnett,

> Nick Tosches, politics, Los Vegas, gangster-related books, and moral
> ambiquity.
>
> This message is automatically sent out twice a month.
>
> William Denton
> List-Owner
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