http://www.sfbg.com/lit/features/hipster.html
It's as silly as most such lists done now, but modern
hipsterism and us
intersect twice:
| Hard-boiled genre: Darkening the bookshelves of every
modern hipster
| are a clutch of noir novels. Jim Thompson has to be
there, with Killer
| Inside Me or one of his many other powerful novels. Two
other dark
| minds rank almost as high: Cornell Woolrich, a genius
for titles (I
| Married a Dead Man and The Bride Wore Black) and Charles
Willeford
| (particularly his earlier novels, such as Wild Wives and
High Priest
| of California).
and
| Pimp lit: One man has this genre to himself: Iceberg
Slim, author of
| Pimp: The Story of My Life, Trick Baby, and many
more.
Be cool.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.vex.net/~buff/ : Caveat lector.
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