By his own standards Sallis is neither a hard-boiled nor a noir author. He
honestly considers himself a "literary writer". Got this straight from the
horse's mouth last year when I had him signed on to be on the Bouchercon
Noir Panel (along with Vicki Hendricks, Bill Cameron, and Ken Bruen) and he
abruptly changed his mind at the literal last minute and backed out, citing
the fact that he really wasn't a noir/hb guy.
I know he was a guest author of the month here years back, but there you
have it.
On 8/13/08, DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net <DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
>
> Mario wrote;
>
> "I don't know why these PIs don't have children."
>
> Well, it would certainly hurt the lone wolf image. As Michael pointed
> out, few HB PIs have ongoing relationships with the opposite sex (and
> many of those conveniently die or vanish between books), so if they had
> kids, they would most likely be from a one night stand. For instance,
> McGee's daughter first showed up as a young adult. Oh, same with the
> daughter in Sallis's latest series.
>
> Mark
>
>
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