david wrote:
Maybe more women would appreciate the genre if exposed to
notable women noir writers of the classic era: Mary
(a.k.a Marty) Holland (personal fave), Virginia Kellog,
Lenore Coffee, Vera Caspary, Leigh Brackett, Dorothy Hughes,
etc.
************ I didn't think Caspary's Laura was noir. Ditto
for Brackett's No Good from a Corpse. Caspary's writing was
not too bad, but I thought Brackett's novel was poor, a
third-rate Chandler imitation. On the other hand, Dorothy
Hughes's Ride the Pink Horse was spectacular. A powerful
psychological story of the dark side. Also I see no
particular advantage sticking with the older classics. Vicki
Hendricks's Iguana Love is outstanding, as is Natsuo Kirino's
Out.
But I don't think that women reading noirs by women authors
would do much to increase their appreciation of the
genre.
miker
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