Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Pelecanos interview at The Onion

From: Graham Powell ( bleekerbooks@hotmail.com)
Date: 24 Sep 2001


My favorite Washington, D. C. quote, from John F. Kennedy: "A city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."

Graham
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>From: "Duane Spurlock" < duane@emazing.com>
>Reply-To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>To: < rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: RE: Pelecanos interview at The Onion
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:09:38 -0400
>
> William Denton < buff@pobox.com> wrote:
>
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>The Onion's A.V. Club has a new interview with Mr. Pelecanos:
>
> http://www.theonionavclub.com/avclub3733/bonusfeature1_3733.html
> >>
>
>This is a nicely done, concise interview that hits the high points. I've
>seen longer interviews that meandered and covered less worthwhile
>territory.
>
>Is Mr. Pelecanos still a member of this mailing list?
>
>I liked this statement: "None of that 'we don't have any racial problems
>here' attitude that you get, say, up north." Unlike the talking heads and
>politicians we frequently see on TV, we finally see someone -- a DC
>native -- who clearly states that Washington is a southern city. Usually
>the
>attitude that's suggested about Washington by the media is that it's
>neither
>southern nor northern, that it sort of exists separate from such
>distinctions because it is the capitol of the country. But the real city is
>a southern town. Yet it has all these northern elements -- the great
>immigrant population, for example, which we popularly associate with
>northern cities -- and lots of power brokering. These two elements are
>certainly as big a part of the U.S. South as the North these days.
>
>Still, the way all these disparate -- and sometimes desperate -- elements
>come together in DC are part of what makes Mr. Pelecanos' books work so
>well.
>-- Duane
>
>
>
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