----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Zeltserman" <
davezelt@comcast.net>
> Also, that when Thompson taught a college creative
writing course,
> Double Indemnity was on the reading list (didn't
know that gem -
> thanks Al!)
On Thompson's 'eclectic' reading list were: Hemingway's A
FAREWELL TO ARMS, Cain's DOUBLE INDEMNITY, a Willa Cather
story called 'Coming, Aphrodite', Robinson Jeffers' poetry,
William Carlos Williams' poems, short stories and IN THE
AMERICAN GRAIN, and Howard Hunt's STRANGER IN TOWN.
Just re-reading that section of Polito's SAVAGE ART (P321,
Serpent's Tail) and it also contains this very interesting
comment from one of his pupils:
'He was big on getting a lot of stuff into a paragraph. He
was Hemingwayesque in the sense of everything being cold,
hard, and clean -- tight writing. And he emphasized art
through dialogue. But he wanted us to pack as much into our
paragraphs as possible, without going into unnecessary
description. 'You don't have to describe the furniture,' he'd
say. Jim was against 'over-furnished rooms' -- a phrase he
picked up from Willa Cather.'
Al
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