More books for the list, which I'll be too poor to buy
because I'm not getting my work out. How comes I lived in
Port Richmond for 20 years and never heard of this guy? I
read just about everything classified mystery in the PR
library when I was broke and not that.
Maybe it's another case of library
policy. My novel-writing teacher denounced Swiftian adverbs,
and sent me to the library for a Tom Swift when I asked for a
definition. The librarian told me the library didn't buy
series novels for children because they were low quality, and
that if I gave them Nancy Drews, the library wouldn't accept
them.
So where'd you live, Duane?
Bridesburg? Kensington? Fishtown? And where'd you go in the
meantime?
Joy, who's also back where she started, more or less
>
> Don't forget David Goodis, who set most of his
gritty HB novels in the
streets of 1950s and 1960s Philadelphia. I believe he lived
with his parents in the Port Richmond section, just one
neighborhood away from where I grew up.
>
> Also, Colin Harrison's BREAK AND ENTER, while
largely a legal thriller,
has its HB moments, and is set in downtown Philly.
>
> Someone mentioned Steve Lopez, and his two novels.
He has a third due out
this May called IN THE CLEAR, but I'm not sure if it's based
in Philly or not. (Lopez is now a columnist for the L.A.
Times; he used to write an excellent column for the Philly
Inquirer back in the day.)
>
> --Duane Swierczynski, Philly native and recent
returnee
>
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