Re: RARA-AVIS: Review of new Elmore Leonard book

From: Michael Robison ( zspider@gte.net)
Date: 19 Jan 2004


Mario Taboada wrote:
> Of course Leonard writes literature. What else could he
> have been doing all these years and decades?

************* Haha! I'm with you, Mario. However, my guess would be that more than 50% of academia consider it as belonging to "genre" fiction, which is way below their radar for respectable reading material. Dreck and tripe qualify as synonyms. I wonder what kind of heat Bill Crider went through for his appreciation for hardboiled and noir. Bill, the prodigal son?

miker

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