At 08:36 PM 4/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone consider Hunter S. Thompson as within the
hard boiled tradition?
>Someone recently maintained to me that he was, I
disputed it, but I'm not
>entirely sure. For one thing, his work is not fiction
(although that's open
>to question, isn't it?). Second, his potpourri of
drug-induced horros
>doesn't seem very hard-boiled to me.
>
>Tribe
>
_Hell's
Angels_ maybe. I can see him as being influenced by the
style. Haven't read the early book that he acknowledges as a
"novel". Not as hardboiled as, say, William Burroughs
though.
James
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