I'd guess Newsweek is extremely excited about a new Thomas Pynchon novel... Which I must admit, I am, too.
Patrick King
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net> wrote:
From: Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Newsweek on noir
To: "RARA-AVIS" <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 10:40 AM
If I rember correctly somebody here was mentioning the Œdeath of noir¹, or
something like that recently...I guess Newsweek is taking another tack on
this...
In any case thanks Allan for the reference...
Montois
On 8/1/09 12:51 PM, "Allan Guthrie" <allan@allanguthrie. co.uk> wrote:
> Article about the literary invasion of noir.
> http://www.newsweek .com/id/209938
> It concludes: "More likely, noir has just expanded its territory to include
> cops and crooks and all those so-called innocent bystanders caught in the
> crossfire. Noir isn't a genre any longer. It's claimed its place as one of
> the twin strands of our cultural DNA, the dark side of the American Dream."
>
> Al
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