I read a short novel and two stories by Stephen Crane. I had
read references to him in a couple places as a hardboiled
influence. MAGGIE, A GIRL OF THE STREETS is a very short
novel about the rough Bowery section of New York City around
1895. It's written with colloquially-spelled dialogue and in
a straightforward and unsentimental style that's typical of
hardboiled. Some of the characters were brutal thugs, and
just about nobody gave a damn about anybody else. I'd say it
was noirish too.
Have to go... more later.
miker
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