Bill Crider wrote:
> The article that Richard Moore mentioned is called
something like "13 Ways
> of Looking at Charles Williams," and it is indeed by
Ed Gorman. It's in
> MURDER OFF THE RACK, edited by Jon Breen.
It's "Fifteen impressions of Charles Williams". "Murder off
the Rack" is still available or at least was couple of months
ago, when I ordered it through Amazon. Gorman's article is
republished in "The Big Book of Noir".
> While a lot of Williams' titles might seem to be
capitalizing
> on the "backwoods" genre, the books themselves have
little relationship
> to John Faulkner or Erskine Caldwell's work. I
suspec the publishers had
> more to do with the titles than Williams did. Didn't
John D. MacDonald
> say something like, "Williams is probably the best
of us all"?
Having just read three Williams novels, I can say that he was
very, very good, but at least in "The Long Saturday Night"
the plot is a bit unbelievable or improbable.
"Big City Girl" and "Talk of the Town" are great. I might be
able to find some influence of Erskine Caldwell in the
former.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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