Cain certainly wasn't flattered by the Hemingway comparison,
judging by what he says in the intro to The Butterfly.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robison
To:
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Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Tough Guy Writers of the
Thirties, by David Madden 1968
david wrote:
i think i once read where Cain said he wrote
Postman
Always Rings Twice before he'd read Hemingway.
Does
anyone know if that's right?
*************
I don't know about that, but I recall that
Cain
disliked being paralleled to Hammett. James Cain
came
up fast in the literary world, didn't he? Wasn't
he
Mencken's buddy for a while, and holding down
an
editorial position on a respectable magazine
or
newspaper?
miker
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