Re: RARA-AVIS: Williams and Woolrich

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 10 Mar 2006


Miker-- For what it's worth re Highsmith, I'd recommend Ripley's Game, supplemented by The American Friend, its film version starring Dennis Hopper. The Berlin (not Bratislava!) atmosphere is fantastic. Rob

--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Doug wrote:
>
> Anything that reawakens interest in Williams is fine
> with me.
>
> ****************
> We're talking about DEAD CALM Williams? I've
> enjoyed
> several of his books, and thought that RIVER GIRL
> was
> brilliant. I'm planning on taking another novel of
> his on vacation. Haven't decided which. Think I'll
> take something by Gil Brewer, too. I've never read
> him. Patricia Highsmith, too. Never read her.
> Time
> to fix that.
>
> Speaking of movies, I've been working my way through
> the noir selections at Netflix. I don't know a damn
> thing about noir movies so I pretty much take what
> they recommend. I've got one coming soon called
> Union
> City, I believe, based on a short story by Cornell
> Woolrich called Rear Window. I've read his I
> MARRIED
> A DEAD MAN, but nothing else.
>
> miker
>
>
>
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