Dennis,
Several times you've alluded to your starting out as a
serious novelist
(don't think those were the words you used, but you get the
idea) and how that later affected your crime writing.
However, I'm curious about how you made the transition from
literary to genre work. At the time, did you see it as a step
down, or simply sideways? Has your perspective on the
difference, if any, changed?
Speaking of that serious novelist's social consciousness that
starting creeping into your genre work, that's one of the
things I've always liked so much in your crime novels. And
unlike Travis McGee's rants, say, the critique is skillfully
woven into the texture of the books, never becoming a sermon.
I found it especially impressive when I moved from Dan
Fortune to Paul Shaw, how the critique remained, although
viewed from the two detectives' very different social
positions. Anyway, I was wondering if you ever got/get grief
for that social consciousness? If so, from whom, publishers,
editors, readers?
Mark
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