Re: [bomp] the thirties were a hard one to deal with?

[jumpinginthenight <jumpinginthenight@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I should have added James M. Cain. Daly pretty much invented hard-boiled.

Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- jumpinginthenight 
wrote:
> 
> Chandler & Hammett, yes. Also Carroll John Daly,

Daly was the Mickey Spillane of the 20s/30s. More
historically important than readable IMO. 

> Kenneth Robeson, 

Never heard of him. 

Sax Rohmer, John P. Marquand,
> Seabury Quinn, Walter B. Gibson, Grant Stockbridge,
> Leslie Charteris, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
> 
James M. Cain and Horace McCoy should be on that list
too, although I don't know if you've read their stuff.
And farther removed from the pulp universe, Orwell,
Celine, Henry Miller, Faulkner, Camus (although "The
Stranger" is IMO a hard boiled novel) 

Hemingway and Fitzgerald were writing great stuff in
the 30s, too. The second quarter of the twentieth
century was a great time for literature as it was a
great time for jazz and cinema. However, given the
choice of going back in time to any period in the last
100 years, the 1930s would not be one of my first
choices, and the period from 1939-45 would probably be
my last choice.....

Sexual orgies, homosexual or not, eliminate social tensions and should be encouraged. - Justice Vincent Scalia



__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Messenger 
Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. 
http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest

===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <===



		
---------------------------------
Yahoo! Messenger
 Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun.

===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <===