Bill Denton wrote:
>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:59:12 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: RARA-AVIS: New Hammett collection
>Has anyone bought this new Hammett collection from
the Library of America?
>CRIME STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS. It's listed on
www.loa.org and the
>table of contents can be seen at
By now someone has probably mentioned this, but you've been
'deceived', Bill.
Take another look at that opening page, and the right-hand
corner come-on
["This Month in Literary History"], and right under that the
Publication Date....
>
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=174§ion=toc
>Most of the stories look pretty familiar, but if
there's new stuff it
>might be a chance to replace an old Vintage paperback
or two with an
>expensive new hardcover. "The Thin Man: An Early
Typescript," that must
>be new. Any of the Hammett experts got any
opinions?
Not an "expert" (on anything!), but I've had both volumes for
several years now, and both are "worth having" -- but not at
that price. I got mine off the web -- somewhere -- for
considerably less than that, and now that you know, I'll bet
you can find a more reasonable-priced copy....
[I still have to read the "new" Nightmare Town collection
from a year or so back, as I save my pennies for the recent
"Letters" and "Memoir" volumes.... Too many, too
soon....]
>The 11 February 2002 issue of THE NEW YORKER has a
nine-page essay on
>Hammett, "Tough Guy," by Claudia Roth
Pierpoint.
Is that online, by chance?
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