Hi,
I'm an author and I'm new to this list. My name is not really
Hank Quinlan, but I do live in the outskirts of a border
town.
My interest in Film Noir and Hardboiled fiction goes back to
the early 50s, when I was living in Los Angeles, although I
didn't know particular films as "Noir" then; I was fascinated
by The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, The Killers, The Strange
Love of Martha Ivers, The Stranger, & the writings of
Chandler. It had a real relevance to my own life at the time
- I too felt the sense of worthlessness, the discovery of
moral decay, and I had been used and abused by too many femme
fatales.
So I made a solo journey across the USA in the winter of 1957
at the age of 22, driving my old chevy through to New York.
It was a lonely trip, and fraught with experiences which have
impacted upon my drastically. I wrote a diary at the time,
and am now planning to base a noirish novel on those
reflections, and hopefully start a film based on this.
Has anyone else here attempted to write a noir novel? If
anyone is interested, I'll post my basic story outline and
you can give me some advice.
Thanks, Hank Quinlan.
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