Yes, yes, YES! That is, as a rule, my response to
Malzberg.
I'd be entirely in favor of spending time with "Herovit's,"
which I loved the last time I read it. I'm not sure whether
it was "Overlay" or "Underlay," both of 'em Malzberg's, that
I read ... in either case, it didn't stick with me. I have
quite a fondness for "Gather In The Hall of The Planets,"
which he wrote under his "K.M. O'Donnell" pseudonym. Also for
"The Remaking of Sigmund Freud."
Is it "HB," though? Cynical, yes, but ... I would tend to
associate Mazlberg more with writers like Philip Roth and
Stanley Elkin, professional worriers and probers and pokers
who make funny/distressing observations rather than
hard-boiled investigators of those well-known "mean
streets."
Malzberg has written well of Cornell Woolrich, who himself
had rather a gift for becoming distressed. Perhaps both of
'em are more Noir than Hard-Boiled?
c.
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Davidson's MASTERS OF THE MAZE...and...
[ ... ]
Barry Malzberg's HEROVIT'S WORLD might likewise be worth
consideration here...and his UNDERLAY...
TM
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