--- Juri Nummelin <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> Ed Lynskey:
>
> > On something else, I wonder how many hardboiled
writers came
>
> > out
> > of the Vietnam War experience? Didn't Crumley
serve there?
>
> Woody Haut discusses this theme in NEON NOIR:
alongside
> Crumley
> and this Nam novel, FROM COUNT TO CADENCE, he talks
about the
> works of Michael Herr, Tim O'Brien and Newton
Thornburg and
> others. Not everything he talks about is crime
fiction, but he
>
> suggests they are noir or at least influential to
new noir
> writing of the seventies and eighties. To me, it
seemed quite
> convincing.
Right, O'Brien, of course. Thornburg or Herr I haven't read.
I'm thinking the Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective was an MP
who came out of the Vietnam experience. I want to read more
in that series, particularly the early ones.
Ed Lynskey
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