Thank you for the intro, Bill.
Several years ago most of my reading was limited to what I
could find in two small bookstores in Bloomington, with the
occasional foray to a used bookstore or thrift store. For two
reasons, my reading choices changed drastically almost
overnight. The first was my discovery of rara-avis. A whole
new reading experience opened up, with the members discussing
and recommending books and authors that I was only vaguely
familiar with, such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler,
and others I'd never heard of at all, such as Charles
Williams and Edward Anderson. The second reason was the
growing internet book market, especially in used and long
out-of-print books, which gave me access to almost any title
with just a credit card and a few keystrokes. I read almost
exclusively within the hardboiled and noir genres for several
years. Beyond the many hours of entertainment, through the
vicarious experience of reading, I have lived a hundred lives
outside mine. Bill Denton has given me the honor of hosting a
month on hardboiled and noir criticism and commentary. Please
join in with your comments on books and essays on hardboiled
criticism, your thoughts on the purpose of literature, and
your ideas about what literary criticism should be.
miker
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