At 11:57 PM 11/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Kerry wrote of Ellroy's criminal self-promotion (pun
intended, I mean it
>both ways):
>
>"Some of it goes to credibility, veracity. In the
same way that
>Hammett's experience as a Pink contributed to the
credibility of his
>stories (yes, they're fiction, but do they have the
ring of truth?),
>Ellroy's experience as a lowlife contributes to the
veracity of his
>stories."
>
>So, to pick just one, Donald Westlake's work lacks
veracity because he
>is "nothing but" a damn good writer?
I didn't say that. And you know better.
Kerry
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