Doug Bassett (dj_bassett@yahoo.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:29:06 -0800 (PST)
--- Brian Lawrence <bdlawrence@netscape.net>
wrote:
>
> One more question, and I'll shut up for a
while.
> Does hardboiled have to be a
> PI story?
No, not at all. Bukowski's stuff, for example, seems to me to
be very hardboiled and is virtually crime-free (unless you
consider public intoxication to be a crime). William
Burroughs first novel, Junky, is also a fine hardboiled
book.
As I think I mentioned in another post, it works the other
way, too. You can have fine PI stories that aren't hardboiled
(Stephen Greenleaf's work comes to mind).
The more I think about it, the more I think that this debate
about sensitive detectives is really a debate about the
popularity of sensitive detectives. It's not that there isn't
hardboiled stuff being published nowadays -- recent postings
here have pointed out many authors. Why, though, is the
"sensitive" detective so popular now?
Doug
Doug
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