I had the pleasure of seeing the noir panel at Bouchercon.
Along with Jim Doherty and Jack Bludis (whose stories I've
read) were some other interesting writers who I haven't read,
especially Eddie Muller. He wrote the nonfiction book DARK
CITY about film noir, then started a series of novels about a
newspaperman in San Francisco, loosley based on his
father
(as he put it, "As far as I know, my father never buried
anyone in Golden Gate Park.").
James Sturtz (Sturz?), an author on another panel, said the
most perceptive thing I've ever heard about noir. He said
it's all about frustration, sexual, financial, or whatever. I
thought that captured in a nutshell a lot of what noir
is.
Graham
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