tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post4704197601199811636..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: The turning point...David Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-67866746948414896822010-01-08T16:38:55.936-08:002010-01-08T16:38:55.936-08:00I bought a funky old Pan Crime paperback of 'T...I bought a funky old Pan Crime paperback of 'The Doomsters' just last week: this has nicely whet my appetite for it.JRSMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04430775461763521797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-11606253277852182812010-01-07T17:27:58.171-08:002010-01-07T17:27:58.171-08:00Didn't bother me. 150 years of newspaper archi...Didn't bother me. 150 years of newspaper archives for nothing...Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-40258823102671542172010-01-07T14:31:08.348-08:002010-01-07T14:31:08.348-08:00Link leads to a "member center" that off...Link leads to a "member center" that offers to sell me "free" access. ("Please enter your billng address and credit card number.") Fascists.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-62765180307921651212010-01-07T13:01:01.382-08:002010-01-07T13:01:01.382-08:00You inspired me here to go to the NYT archives and...You inspired me here to go to the NYT archives and look up the Eudora Welty review of The Underground Man from the Book Review that, as I remember it at least, put MacDonald in the pantheon with Chandler and Hammett. (She didn't do it, I know, but you know what I mean -- the review had an enormous effect on MacDonald's reputation.)<br /><br />I was astonished at how compelling and beautifully written this piece was. Can't cut and paste because it's a .pdf, but do yourself a big favor and follow the link.<br /><br />Cool quotes from Welty: <br /><br />Archer never had a choice. There is the maze of the past to be entered and come out of alive, bringing the innocent to safety. And in the maze there lives a monster; his name is Murder.<br /><br />----<br />Time pressing, time lapsing, time repeating itself in dark acts, splitting into two in some agonized or imperfect mind -- time is the wicked fairy to troubled people, granting them inevitably the thing they dread.<br /><br />http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F30D14F93B5F127A93C6A81789D85F458785F9Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com