(the bit house move is on Wednesday) I'd want to join in
about a lot of things that have been on the past few digests,
including a socialist critique of rampant international
capitalism (Halliburton, Enron, Worl-
sorry, I mustn't) and also tell you about a
couple of good panels at Crime Scene yesterday. But just
briefly, what caught my eye was
>I took
>the novel to be more social commentary; the drifter
as outsider not finding
>a place in a somewhat surreal, disfunctional
society.
Isn't this something like universal in hb, and part of its
essential nature? The panel on the American influence in
British crime (John Connolly, John Harvey, Michael Billington
and Russell James) seemed to think so; and there was a good
discussion of the consequences of this for, for instance,
regional crime writing here. (Incidentally Grahame Greene was
one of the people they proposed as an important influence on
Brit HB.)
I may start to make some sense when the move is over AND the
new computer is set up, but I think I'm saying that I'm going
to be in/visible/audible for a little while. Wish me
luck!
Marianne
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