<< If you're a short-story-disliker, trying getting an
anthology like
Pronzini and Adrian's HARDBOILED or one of Jakubowski's
and reading one
story in a sitting once a week. The old writers honed
their skills in
short stories, and when they were good, they were
diamond sharp. >>
And surely no-one's going to deny that Chandler was much
better in shorts than he was in novels? Are they ... ?
Innocently, Mat C <A HREF="
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/matcoward/myhomepage/newsletter.html">
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/matcoward/myhomepage/newsletter.html>
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