Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Urban Fiction

From: Joy Matkowski (jmatkowski1@comcast.net)
Date: 07 Jan 2009

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    Solomon Jones (http://www.solomonjones.com/) might be a place to start. I read his Pipe Dream, which was good but not my style enough to buy another of his. Joy

    bobav1 wrote:
    > What I've read and skimmed has been pretty lousy, but the genre has
    > got a real base of writers, booksellers, and readers. Here's a New
    > York Times article about the move of these books into libraries:
    >
    > www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/nyregion/23fiction.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
    >
    > Besides, it's not as if every Holloway House, or dare I say Gold
    > Medal, was worth reading. As within every cultural field, Sturgeon's
    > Law that 90% is crap more than applies. Now how do we find the <10%
    > that works for us?
    >
    >
    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
    > <jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
    >>
    >> Wiki:
    >>
    >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_fiction
    >>
    >> If there are worthy or promising hardboiled or noir authors of street
    >> lit, perhaps we should take a look, no?



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