Juri,
I read all over the map---but all fiction. I've been a
voracious reader all my life, and did a lot of non-fiction
when I was younger.
I reread classics of all kinds, I read mainstream and
experimental, ICELAND for example. In the field of
mystery-detective I read some thrillers---loved a novel THE
JOURNEYMAN TAILOR by Gerald Seymour some years ago, dark,
very dark. I don't read cozies, or that strange hybrid I call
cozy-hardboiled. In general I only read books that say
something universal about the human condition. I read a lot
of the Latin-American writers.
As far as noir goes, my favorite newish writer is Daniel
Woodrell who has a wonderful voice and writes dark tales
indeed. I read Jim Sallis, Jim Lee Burke, Crumley sometimes,
a mainstream writer John A. Williams whose latest novel
CLIFFORDS BLUES is dark enough for anyone. There are others I
simply can't call to mind, but you get the idea.
But Woodrell is probably the best younger writer in America
today, with an individual voice and view to die for.
Best,
Dennis-Michael
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> Mr. Lynds,
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> what new writers do you like to read? In the
hardboiled/noir
> genre, I mean. Do you follow the genre avidly or do
you go back
> to classics?
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> Juri
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