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Gar Anthony Haywood schreibt über seine Lektüre von James Crumleys „The last good kiss“:
More than one reviewer over the years has called THE LAST GOOD KISS nothing less than “the best private eye novel ever written,” but I think that’s merely what it could have been, had Crumley shown a greater regard — or any regard, really — for realism. And plots that do more than circle back upon themselves, over and over again. Whatever the best private eye novel ever written really is — and that’s a debate for another day — I have to believe it’s a much deeper read than THE LAST GOOD KISS, and that its author did a better job of balancing pathos with the absurd.
Der Krimiautor nennt auch seine großen Vorbilder:
I was reading people like Lawrence Block and Ross MacDonald; John D. McDonald, Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Valin. Authors who showed little or none of the interest in super-sized fantasy that Crumley appears to have exulted in. Block, in particular, took pains to scale everything in his stories back — character, dialogue, sex — to keep all within the realm of the genuinely possible, doling out humor, in particular, in doses Crumley would have no doubt considered miserly. Block’s was a style of writing within genre I found most involving from a reader’s perspective, and most challenging from a writer’s, and so it was Block whom I ultimately chose to emulate — as I continue to do today. (I’ve yet to reach the Grand Master’s level, of course, and indeed, I never may. But Block’s stuff is still my target, and I’ve got no problem admitting it.)
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Julia Buckley hat sich mit Michael Harvey unterhalten.
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Der Noir of the Week ist „Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse“ (D 1933, Regie: Fritz Lang, Drehbuch: Thea von Harbou).
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Bei Script Collector gibt es die Drehbücher zu den aktuellen Kinofilmen
Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn: Kick-Ass
John Glenn, Travis Wright: Clash of the Titans (Kampf der Titanen)
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Jack Nicholson!
