I've recently read this book, about the hard-boiled pulps,
and was somewhat disappointed. The author (Geoffrey O'Brien)
wasted a lot of space on describing the effect of pulp covers
on his young psyche, and then said some very general and
unorigional things about Hammett, Chandler, Thompson and
Goodis. The amazing thing about pulps, for me, is how many
great (or at least very good) obscure writers there were in
the genre. He also says all the great pulp writers were
poets, when a great many were newspaper men, and it showed in
their writing. I'm wondering if there isn't a better, more
definitive book on the genre...
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