'night errands' would make a good title for a story or novel
--- On Mon, 11/15/10, Michael Jeter <michael.damian.jeter@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Jeter <michael.damian.jeter@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: westerns and night errands
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 6:45 AM
> 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
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