--- Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
"The standard problem encountered when declaring Hemingway
the founder of the hardboiled genre is the timeline. It is
common nowadays to point to stories by Hammett and Daly in
Black Mask in 1923 as the beginning of hardboiled writing,
and this predates anything by Hemingway that could be
considered hardboiled."
i think i once read where Cain said he wrote Postman Always
Rings Twice before he'd read Hemingway. Does anyone know if
that's right?
by the way I just spent 3 days in mexico, got back to find
over 40 rara-avis messages in my box and read all of them.
guess i'm hooked. glad i signed on. i dropped out of a PHd in
lit. in part because theory started to take over my life. I'd
like to get back to the point Miker's at, where one can
balance literary pleasure and criticism. I wonder if it's too
late to change my dissertation topic from Foucault to Horace
McCoy?
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