There are a few of that type -- HARDBOILED SENTIMENTALITY, WESTERN AND
HARDBOILED FICTION FROM HIGH NOON TO MIDNIGHT, GUMSHOE AMERICA: HARDBOILED
CRIME FICTION AND THE RISE AND FALL OF NEW DEAL LIBERALISM, HARD-BOILED
MASCULINITY and maybe one of two others -- that initially look good but seem
to smack of collegiate/doctorate puffery. I've avoided all of them thus
far. I am, however, less familiar with HARDBOILED SENTIMENTALITY than the
others, so will be sure to look into that one.
Ron C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Cain
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 12:46 PM
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
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> 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
> >
> >> -----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...
> >>
> >> Ron, Howard Browne's Incredible Ink anthology opens with a 50-60 page
> > memoir of
> >> his writing career.
> >>
> >> 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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