I admitted:
>"I should add that I'm a sucker for these kinds of
books from the
>literary types. I even liked Tough Guys Don't
Dance."
Mark said:
>Now that's an intriguing subgenre. What other books
would you add to
>the list of thrillers/crime novels by literary types?
I can think of
>two immediately: Squeeze Play by Paul Benjamin
Auster, who drops the
>last name for his pseudonym, and Straight Cut by
Madison Smartt (is it
>the "t" that's repeated or the "a," I can never
remember) Bell.
Tough Guys Don't Dance is the most obvious example I can
think of of an auther deliberately slumming. Squeeze Play and
Straight Cut (along with Motherless Brooklyn and Amis's Night
Train) strike me more as natural stops along the way for
writers who have tried a number of styles. (Maybe I'm being
too tough on ole Norman, since he certainly has tried many
styles and wrote hardboiled books long before TGDD. I liked
the book, slumming or no). No Country for Old Men is a worthy
addition to this list.
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