Bob V. wrote:
Did you ever get around to reading McTeague by Frank Norris?
Great characters, whopper ending. And since this list is
creeping closer and closer to films, Von Stroheim's creepy,
fragmentary Greed (McTeague) is worthwhile too.
As it happens, I will be serializing McTeague (1899) over the
next seven issues of THE BACK ALLEY. Wonderfully noir stuff,
which begins with deceit and in which almost all the major
characters are doomed by their own moral flaws. I contacted a
professor of English at UNC-Wilmington yesterday, Keith
Newlin, who is a McTeague nut (and who has written a book
about Chandler, also) to ask him if he would write a
critical/analytical piece for THE BACK ALLEY. He can't do it
for the first issue in which McTeague will appear, but he did
say to try him again in March or April. In the interim he has
forwarded my request to the president of The Frank Norris
Society (I didn't even know there was one!), to see if anyone
there wants to pen an article for the webzine.
The second issue of THE BACK ALLEY, including the first part
of McTeague, should be up in a couple of weeks. R
Richard Helms http://richardhelms.net?
Editor, THE BACK ALLEY webzine www.backalleywebzine.com
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