Re: RARA-AVIS: Hard-boiled
Harry Levy (halevy@m1.sprynet.com)
Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:19:29 -0400
At 12:32 PM 6/7/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Dick Tartow:
>
><<Will Sue Grafton be read or reprinted 50 years
from now?>>
>
>I somehow doubt it. She is an excellent plotter and a
fine prose writer
>in the plainspoken style. However, the character of
Millhone is (to my
>skeptical mind) not sufficiently interesting to survive
that long. I
>suspect that Millhone appeals mainly to the yuppie
sectors of the
>eighties and nineties (of the Reagan and Clinton
variety, respectively)
>- but who knows what future generations will think of
her?
>
I think any writer who accurately reflects an aspect of the
world they live
in deserves a chance at long-term survival.
Harry A. Levy, MD, MPH
Executive Editor
Cyberounds
http://www.cyberounds.com
email: halevy@sprynet.com
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