Well, it looks like we can close up this newsgroup and all go
home now...hardboiled literature is dead and hasn't existed
for 40 years.
At least, according to Author/Editor Bill Pronzini.
Here's what he had to say in a story intro in his new
horror/dark suspense short-story collection, NIGHT FREIGHT:
"The true hardboiled story was born in the Depression
thirties and died in the post-McCarthy fifties; everything
since that has been termed hardboiled is either an imitation,
an intentional tribute, or some other kind of criminous tale
(usually one featuring a private detective as protagonist)
that has been misrepresented so it will fit into a convenient
niche."
Will the last person to leave this newsgroup please remember
to turn off the lights?
Ron Clinton
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