Re: RARA-AVIS: Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties, by David Madden 1968

From: Allan Guthrie ( allan@allanguthrie.co.uk)
Date: 05 Sep 2006


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: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
  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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