The New York Times has an article by Donald Westlake about
Richard Stark:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/29/arts/29WEST.html?printpage=yes
It requires registration, like they always say, but
joe@joe.com for username and password works fine.
| Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo.
Stark strips
| his sentences down to the necessary information.
|
| In "Flashfire," the Richard Stark novel just recently
published, he
| writes, "Parker looked at the money, and it wasn't enough."
In one of
| his own novels a few years ago, Donald Westlake wrote,
"John Dortmunder
| and a failed enterprise always recognized one another."
Dortmunder,
| Westlake's recurring character, proposes a Christmas toast
this way,
| "God help us, every one." Parker answers the phone,
"Yes."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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