James Sallis has a piece in the NY Times about writing and
finishing the Lew Griffin series. I recommend his first Lew
Griffin novel (Long-Legged Fly) quite a bit. The second
(Moth) is good, but not as strong as the first. You need to
register (free) to get to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/books/31SALL.html
Here's an excerpt:
"Mysteries?
"What better crucible in which to fire up the reagents of
contemporary urban life? Crime novels give access to every
level of society, taking on the city in its entirety. The
privileged, the impoverished, the invisible. When in the 80's
I began writing in the field, it seemed to me that much of
the most interesting work was being done in the crime novel.
A whole army of writers, people like Jim Burke, Stephen
Greenleaf and Daniel Woodrell, had decamped from "literary"
fiction and set up down by the river. They wanted to write
serious novels, and they wanted people to read them, and they
didn't feel those two desires had to be exclusive.
"I dropped my knapsack and unrolled my sleeping bag beside
them."
Doug
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