William Denton wrote:
If someone wanted to buy one (or two) books about hardboiled
and noir, and was looking for background, criticism, history,
interpretation, opinion, etc., what would you
recommend?
************* As far as an actual literary discussion, I
think that O'Brien's Hardboiled America is wonderful. He
follows the genre where it leads rather than twisting it to
satisfy some personal agenda. Two others I recommend are
Duncan's Noir Fiction and Madden's Tough Guy Writers of the
Thirties.
As far as a description of the pulp period, Goulart's Dime
Detectives shows a lot of knowledgeable detail. His love for
the pulps is catching. But Gruber's Pulp Jungle is right in
the middle of it. It is a real and bona fide memoir of the
pulp age. He personally knew Cap Shaw, Cornell Woolrich, Max
Brand, and a bunch others. He was right in the middle of
it.
As far as the early paperback period, I'd do a repeat on
O'Brien's Hardboiled America and add Server's Over My Dead
Body.
miker
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