Hi, Kevin, Impressive editorial. I'm sitting here ticking off
one book after another in my head trying to think if I
committed any of the distasteful new features you mention!
Pornographic maybe, but I think someone else brought that up.
However, my point is that people write what they want and
other people apply the names. When Miami Purity came out in
'95, I never realized I was going to be classified as noir.
When I heard the word, I figured it was somehow a
"literary" type crime, because the French word gave it some
prestige. I really didn't know anything about noir in writing
at all, other than reading Cain's novels. When I found out
that's what I had written, I figured I'd better find out what
it was. I had already written Iguana Love, at that point, and
it turned out to be noir too. Then I wrote Voluntary Madness,
which I thought was a love story, but it wasn't. It was crime
or noir or whatever. So now I just call myself a crime writer
or noir writer since everyone else is doing it. The author
has no control over the classification. Vicki
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