Thanks! Very interesting to read!
Bengt
----- Original Message -----
From: "JIM DOHERTY" <jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com>
To: <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:34 PM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: western vs noir, cowboy vs private eye
Bengt,
Re your post below:
"So I´m thinking about the connection between the two - or the one -
genre(s), between american crime novels and the myth of the american western
and cowboy myth. Has there been anything written about this? Am I right? You
have any thoughts that can send me in the right direction when I start
writing? Any suggestion of other american crime writers who come close to
western cowboy novels - or writers of cowboy fiction who come close to crime
novels? Or anything!"
In a recent edition of my "I LIke 'Em Tough" column for MYSTERICAL-E, on the
occasion of Elmore Leonard's winning a Lifetime Achievement Award from
Western Writers of America, I wrote a column on just that subject, called
"The Hard-B(O)i(L)e(D) West," that you might find useful. You can find it
here:
http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=091&body=file&file=like_em_tough.htm
Apropos of nothing to do with this thread, the latest edition of my ILET
column, "Iron Curtain Cops," can be found here:
http://www.mystericale.com/index.php?issue=current_issue&body=file&file=like_em_tough.htm
As its title suggests, it's about police procedurals set in the USSR and
other Soviet Bloc countries.
JIM DOHERTY
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