It seems like these guys don't like an awful lot of stuff
they haven't read.
TL
On Jul 2, 2004, at 10:37 AM, William Denton wrote:
> From an interview with Trevor Maviano, at
>
> http://www.sexandgutsmagazine.com/maviano.htm
>
> | But these are all guys that at least know their
way around. Someone
> like
> | Pelecanos, I call him the shoe salesman of crime
fiction. His rhythms
> | are wrong. He tries awful hard to be gritty.
That's how it comes off
> to
> | a guy like me, is tryin.... I find his stuff to be
incredibly
> contrived,
> | in that it is trying to expand the genre into new
areas, but I don't
> | [want] to hear preaching about racial division in
the United States
> | mixed in with my crime fiction. I just want crime.
If I want to read
> | something political, I'll read non-fiction for
Christ's sake.
>
> I think that's pretty much wrong on all counts.
Maviano later
> contradicts
> himself, saying, "My view of crime is different than
some people's. I
> feed
> off a social conflict model, that I think Marx
inspired quite a bit. I
> see
> crime for profit as being a political
thing."
>
>
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/
: Caveat
> lector.
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