Last updated: 15 November 2001
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Mark Blumenthal will be your guest thememaster for:
Nov 2001: Boston (Dennis Lehane, Robert L. Parker, George V.
Higgins,
Jeremiah
Healy, Jerome Doolittle)
Mark Sullivan will be guest thememaster for the
post-Bouchercon month:
Dec 2001: Washington, D.C. (George Pelecanos, James Grady,
Robert Dietrich
[E.
Howard Hunt], Ross Thomas)
People who actually live in the cities are encouraged to
speak up.
Manuel Ramos will be your guest thememaster for:
Jan 2002: Latino noir and hardboiled writing
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Having a theme for a month, where people can read any book by
a particular author or in a certain series or on a certain
topic, is easier all around than the old book-of- the-month
readings we'd do. It brings up a lot more discussion on the
list and it doesn't tie everyone to a certain book that may
be hard for them to find. I encourage everyone to read
something related to the theme of the month and mention it on
the list. All the regular RARA-AVIS talk goes on as well, of
course.
Suggestions for future themes include: the continuing
question of hardboiled women writers, Barry Gifford, Patricia
Highsmith, W.R. Burnett, Nick Tosches, politics, Los Vegas,
gangster-related books, and moral ambiquity.
This message is automatically sent out twice a month.
William Denton List-Owner
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