Re: RARA-AVIS: Pulp stories as plot device

From: christafaust ( faust@christafaust.com)
Date: 05 May 2008


Didn't Day Keene do one about a pulp writer living in Mexico? It's way too early and the title is escaping me...

- Christa

--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, harry.lerner@... wrote:

> > First, thank-you to everyone who responded to my query regarding
> > PERCHANCE TO DREAM.
> >
> > Second, over the last several months I have been stocking my bookshelf
> > with several of Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective stories
> > (specifically the Paperjacks editions). Among the titles I've picked
> > are BINDLESTIFF, DRAGONFIRE, SCATTERSHOT, HOODWINK and BONES. I've
> > finally gotten around to reading these volumes and my first selection,
> > purely at random, was HOODWINK.
> >
> > I'm really enjoying this story with its pulp writing and pulp writers
> > backdrop. As a result, I'm also really looking forward to BONES, which
> > involves a pulp writer and his suspicious death. All of this has
> > peaked my curiosity regarding other hard-boiled or noir volumes that
> > use the pulps, or the publishing world, as a plot device and/or
> > backdrop. I would greatly appreciate any and all recommendations.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for yet again letting me pick all of your brains!
> >
> > Best,
> > Harry
> >
>



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