What I've read and skimmed has been pretty lousy, but the genre has
got a real base of writers, booksellers, and readers. Here's a New
York Times article about the move of these books into libraries:
www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/nyregion/23fiction.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1
Besides, it's not as if every Holloway House, or dare I say Gold
Medal, was worth reading. As within every cultural field, Sturgeon's
Law that 90% is crap more than applies. Now how do we find the <10%
that works for us?
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "jacquesdebierue"
<jacquesdebierue@...> wrote:
>
> Wiki:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_fiction
>
> If there are worthy or promising hardboiled or noir authors of street
> lit, perhaps we should take a look, no?
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
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