-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison [mailto:
zspider@gte.net]
Marianne Macdonald wrote:
> Anyhoo - it set me to wondering whether the School
of Spillane was
> something that an empathetic person of either gender
would be very
> interested in becoming involved in nowadays. With
the demise of the
> old pulp magazines, the financial rewards for that
kind of
> straight-faced cartoonish hardboilery must be rather
limited these
> days?
************* Vachss has pretty much shifted the School of
Spillane over to the left side of the political fence and
wrote a few. However, I'm not sure if Vachss has quit his day
job, so the financial rewards are questionable. Is that what
it's all about?
---It helps to be able to make a living; though the pressure
of exclusively writing for one's bread leads to its own
obvious compromises. I'm not sure I agree that Vachss is a
leftist (I suspect he wouldn't), but I think his writing
helps fund his cause work these days. TM
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