Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: how to write noir

From: Don Lee (donthepoet@yahoo.com)
Date: 03 Mar 2009

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    She would be the one to know!!

    --- On Tue, 3/3/09, jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > From: jacquesdebierue <jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com>
    > Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: how to write noir
    > To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
    > Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 1:29 PM
    > --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Don Lee
    > <donthepoet@...> wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > > Has anyone written a really good piece/book/etc. on
    > how to write
    > noir? I have been a how-to-write-X junkie my whole life and
    > am trying
    > to think of anything specifically like that. I guess
    > Chandler's famous
    > essay would count, "down these mean streets"
    > etc., though I seem to
    > remember that's more about the P.I. tale than noir per
    > se.
    > >
    > > Just curious for feedback.
    >
    > Patricia Highsmith wrote a short handbook, but I don't
    > recall if it
    > was general advice about writing or specific to noir.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > mrt

          



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