Re: RARA-AVIS: Everything's Noir?

From: William Ahearn ( williamahearn@yahoo.com)
Date: 21 May 2007


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

> William Ahearn wrote:
>

> Didion's Play It as It Lays is about the most
> angst-ridden thing I've read this side of Woolrich's
> I
> Married a Dead Man. Purple noir. Nathanael West's
> Miss Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust are both
> excellent.
>
Play It As It Lays can only be read as satire these days. Didion couldn't write a novel. The White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem is what I had in mind and her precious way of noticing things.

I'm still pissed of that the name Homer Simpson has become what it has. I like the show. But couldn't they leave that name alone?

William

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