Mark wrote:
>I'll second Mario's nomination of The
Chill.
>
>On a sort of related note, I still remember Greil
Marcus's Rolling Stone
>review of Last Good Kiss, which he called the best PI
novel since The
>Chill.
Gee, I remember that one too -- it made me go out and buy the
book, which I still think is Crumley's best by far. And
didn't Marcus also do a column on Chandler about the same
time, a collection of his best wisecracks?
And how the story about Warren Zevon and Ross Macdonald? And
the Macdonald obit? And the original version of Wolfe's
BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES? The Patty Hearst story? Mikal
Gilmore's coverage of his brother's execution? All those
great (and disturbing) true crime stories? Hunter S.
Thompson? P.J. O'Rourke? Dave Marsh? Charles M. Young? And on
and on.
It's a sad world when the most famous ROLLING STONE staffer
is now lightweight filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose lightweight
rock crit career reached its pinnacle with his penning of the
liner notes for FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE.
Kids, believe it or not, once upon a time ROLLING STONE was
much much more than just a marginally hipper version of
PEOPLE. Forget the cutting edge (and often surprisingly
hard-boiled) writing on lit and music and politics and
culture, now it's mostly, to quote those other Stones,
starfuckastarfuckastarfuckastarfuckastar and regularly
scheduled special issues and tributes to itself.
--
Kevin Burton Smith
The Thrilling Detective Web Site Holiday Issue New stories and the 2004 Thrillies. http://www.thrillingdetective.com
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