Anyone is entitled to take a potshot at anyone, as long as
they don't make it personal and are prepared for the backlash
if it backfires. Looks like this potshot has backfired. I
wouldn't call Ken Bruen untouchable but he is loved by so
many in the genre. Remember where he came from - RILKE ON
BLACK, HER LAST CALL TO LOUIS MACNIECE, THE HACKMAN BLUES.
Those babies are classics. I don't recall anyone calling him
a hanger-on back then. Bruen is loved because he is simply a
great and original writer. He writes from a place that no one
else does, and he has his own style. This is what wins the
awards, not hanging around with snotty nosed upstarts like...
well, me.
Actually I've never met the guy. But that's my loss (and one
I hope to redeem some day), because he's a star of the genre.
And he can write us all under the table.
Charlie Williams.
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