Hi,
BIG BOOK OF NOIR is an excellent resource, I can't speakly
highly enough about it. Gorman's piece on worthwhile
Fawcett/Gold Medals and the esteemable Mr. Crider's piece on
worthwhile Dells (I'm pretty sure Mr. Crider wrote that, but
don't have the book in front of me to check it) are worth the
purchase price in themselves.
There's a lot of lesser lights and lighter lessers covered,
but there's also some great stuff in Pronzini's 1001
MIDNIGHTS, coverage of now fairly obscure pb writers like
Ennis Willie, Jay Flynn, etc.
doug
--- William Denton <
wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
> A question for Mr. Robison before the month
ends:
> If someone wanted to
> buy one (or two) books about hardboiled and
noir,
> and was looking for
> background, criticism, history,
interpretation,
> opinion, etc., what would
> you recommend?
>
> Frank Gruber's PULP JUNGLE sounds like a good one
to
> start with. I
> mentioned Geoffrey O'Brien's HARDBOILED AMERICA
a
> minute ago, but it's out
> of date now. How about THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR?
Paul
> Duncan's little NOIR
> FICTION?
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada :
> www.miskatonic.org : www.frbr.org
>
Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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