I have not read Lehane, but I plan to.
I am a regular listener and, when I can, a member of my local NPR station.
I often try to sell NPR as a superior conveyor of news. However, the
following mistake in NPR's transcription is another instance of what I
perceive as a slipping of standards:
"Since the days of Spade and Archer, probably more private investigators
were actually working for larger firms, for security firms, for brinks," he
concedes. "But the archetype, the fictional archetype [of the private
detective], has always been of the night errands."
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:32 AM, noblegasesuk <noblegasesuk@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>
> Dennis Lehane on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowlege"
>
> >>"You know the American private eye novel is just a continuation of the
> Western," he adds. "It's where the Western went when the bottom dropped out
> of the market for Westerns. So the private eye archetype has always been
> clearly that. There's no connection between the private eyes you see in
> fiction and real private eyes.<<
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131244106/in-lehane-s-mile-blessings-tainted-with-regret
>
> --- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>, sonny
> <sforstater@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-10/cormac-mccarthy-vs-larry-mcmurtry-best-western-novelist/full/
> >
> >
> > the articel linked above was interesting to me, but not so much for the
> specific "blood meridian"/cormac mccarthy vs. "lonesome dove"/larry mcmurtry
> as for a catalyst to wondering about western noir and/or hardboiled fiction.
> >
> > the article mentions pete dexter and daniel woodrell. have westerns been
> talked about here much?
> >
>
>
>
-- Michael Damian Jeter New Orleans, LA Literacy, Music, and Democracy[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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