tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post9106548697872255737..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: More Noir in the Library of AmericaDavid Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-21076187924857603422012-04-02T15:24:04.068-07:002012-04-02T15:24:04.068-07:00"Trap for Cinderella" has almost exactly..."Trap for Cinderella" has almost exactly the same structure as Migal/Tarantula/The Skin I Live In: First third sets up a kinky situation, middle third flashes back to show us it's even weirder than we thought; final third spins out the consequences. A soild "poetic form" for noir.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-90272570756892284062012-03-29T21:58:13.341-07:002012-03-29T21:58:13.341-07:00I sort of agree. The tough-guy pose. MacDonald gav...I sort of agree. The tough-guy pose. MacDonald gave it up before 1960. Noir is potentially more interesting because it's tragic.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-29152259114239532482012-03-29T17:10:03.259-07:002012-03-29T17:10:03.259-07:00I liked this line about Stark, which I could argue...I liked this line about Stark, which I could argue either side of....<br /><br />With "Richard Stark" (actually the well-known mystery writer Donald E. Westlake), the hard-boiled novel went into its decadent phase—from which it has yet to recover.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-35349046137750314362012-03-29T17:08:15.594-07:002012-03-29T17:08:15.594-07:00Well.... Hammett and Chandler get a couple of volu...Well.... Hammett and Chandler get a couple of volumes each, but you know what I mean...Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-23793264959846223382012-03-29T17:06:15.982-07:002012-03-29T17:06:15.982-07:00Two Gold Stars.
"Down There" is in th...Two Gold Stars. <br /><br />"Down There" is in the two volume set of "American Noir of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s" that the Library published about ten years ago.<br /><br />Willeford's in it, too, and Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and so forth. Goodis alone gets his own volume....<br /><br />Check here: www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=1<br /><br />and here:<br /><br />http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=2Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-65356649052331210772012-03-29T16:24:49.614-07:002012-03-29T16:24:49.614-07:00I love Goodis, but got disgusted by the mopey pass...I love Goodis, but got disgusted by the mopey passivity of the hero the last time I tried to read him. (The omission of Down There, source of Shoot the Piano Player, seems odd; I'm sure they have their reasons.)<br /><br />Cain is so relentlessly devoted to hardfast and nothing else (like some punk bands) that you have to laugh. But you don't ness put either in heavy rotation.<br /><br />I've read everything on the WSJ list except Violent Saturday. Gold star?David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.com