Juri!
I'm pleased HBL has found it's way to your shelf. Hope you
enjoy it, and I'll take full responsibility if for any reason
you do not.
And Jordan, I didn't thank you for your support. Thanks for
your support. I hope you enjoyed your two as well.
It is so easy to forget the few who do take an interest when
I'm feeling frustrated, confronted by a world of
indifference. Well, I guess indifference is better than
active hate. I'll stop whining now.
But while I'm making my thank you rounds, thanks to whomever
it was recommended I read James Sallis. I'm just starting
Blue Bottle- #5 and the final Lew Griffin, I think. God but
this man can write. The beauty he brings out of the ugly side
of a decaying city is inspiring. The style and the language.
The allusions to noir culture, literature, philosophy, blues
and classical music- it is like it's own reading list. The
humanity of it- if there's an agenda, it can only be for
tolerance and compassion. Sometimes the right work will
resonate if read at the right time, but this feels like more.
I have a feeling I will read about Griffin again, and again,
which seems the only reasonable response to such a well
examined and re-examined life.
Thank you Rara, Kerry
At 11:00 AM 19/04/2007, you wrote:
>On Canadian noir anthologies: someone
asked:
>
> >> I picked up two of them. Did it
sell
> >> internationally?
>
>Kerry:
> > Not so's you'd notice. A number of books took
brief vacations in
> > England and the US and have returned home to
take early retirement.
>
>I managed to buy one, called HARDBOILED LOVE, in a
Finnish bookstore called
>Academic, couple of years back. I think I detected
two copies of the book. I
>haven't had a chance to read the book as yet, I'm
sorry to say.
>
>Juri
>
>
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