Thanks for the new names, Juri.
Speaking of westerns, I caught a gritty western flick, THE
YELLOW SKY, adapted from a W.R. Burnett novel. It had the
themes of treachery and greed, all right. Anyway, for
entertainment, I enjoyed it.
It puzzles me why hardboiled westerns like this have fallen
into such a moribund state.
Ed Lynskey
--- Juri Nummelin <
juri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> Ed Lynskey:
>
> > I'd be willing to bet U.S. pulp in the 1930s
had its own
> share
> > of bad
> > writing. A few "gems" (aside from Hammett and
Chandler)
> also
> > fell out. Bruno Fischer comes to immediately to
mind.
>
> Oh, there were lots of gems falling out from the
pulps - just
> check the Steve Midnight collection by John K.
Butler that
> came
> out in the late nineties. It's excellent, and I'd
bet some
> money
> on Chandler being influenced by Butler. Also W.T.
Ballard who
> made some very good Western paperbacks in the
fifties. (Isn't
> there a collection of his Bill Lennox stories that
came in
> Black
> Mask?) There are lots of gems and I won't go into
mentioning
> all
> of them, but I've read enjoyable pulp stories by
such total
> unknowns as H.H. Stinson and Richard Dermody.
(Stinson is in
> the
> Black Mask group picture with Hammett and Chandler,
though, so
>
> he's not exactly a total unknown.)
>
>
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