Hard Boiled Sentimentality by Leonard Cassuto was a pretty interesting
read, even though I'm not completely sold on the thesis.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Ron Clinton <clinton65@comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Mark -- got both of those, too (don't have the Himes bio, but then
> again I'm not a big Himes fan and DIFFICULT LIVES seemed to covered his
> basics just fine). I'm starting to think that maybe I've got this area
> covered better than I thought I did. :-)
>
> Ron
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
>> Behalf Of Mark Sullivan
>> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:47 AM
>> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Historical analysis books...
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>> Ron, Howard Browne's Incredible Ink anthology opens with a 50-60 page
> memoir of
>> his writing career.
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>> And James Sallis wrote a short book called Difficult Lives with capsule
> appraisals of
>> Goodis, Himes and Thompson. He later did a full biography of Himes.
>>
>> Mark
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