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Hi, everyone:
I just got the announcement for this discussion group and have just signed
on through majordomo@icomm.ca
Really looking forward to sharing my hardboiled enthusiasms. I've just
finished a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville
and am in the process of trying to find a job teaching same at a university.
I would love to work up a course that involves hardboiled writing. My
favorite writer is most definitely Jim Thompson. I just finished A Hell of a
Woman and thought it right fine, though my favorite so far has been Pop.
1280. I am saving The Killer Inside Me for a rainy day. I would love
suggestions about what Thompson to pick up next. (I've already read
Swell-Looking Babe and Savage Night). I also love Horace McCoy, especially
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, I Should Have Stayed Home, and They Shoot Horses, Don't
They. I also dig Raymond Chandler. I've found Dashiell Hammet a little
dry, and have mixed feelings about Andrew Vachs. I might pick up James M.
Cain next, or perhaps more Thompson. Any suggestions?
At this point, I have two questions. I really loved Charles Williams' The
Hot Spot, but can't find anything else by him to read. Any suggestions?
Also, what's going on among academic/scholarly/critical circles with regard
to this sort of material. Has any "must-read" stuff appeared, yet? (For me,
the more theoretical, the better. I especially like Lacanian readings).
Here's a hot tip from me: Pick up Vicki Hendricks' Miami Purity, available
on Black Lizard. Really razzle-dazzle stuff. The narrator is a woman whose
packin some deliciously wicked (and witty) class-politics. Does anyone know
if Vicky Hendricks plans to do more books with this narrator? Let's hope so.
T. R.
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