Steph writes:
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. I'm really into detective novels after reading Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye. I like how lean mean spare reporter-like the prose is. And I like the old fashion words (like "I'm tight" or "I'm drunk" or "dame" or "she's one hot dish") hard drinking hard living stuff. It's fun even when it's completely ridiculous. I also just read The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith - A M A Z I N G!!! It's a brilliant lesbian novel that actually inspired Nabokov's Lolita. I recommend it to gays and straights alike. She also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley and a new biography on her just came out and man was she WAY ahead of her time, so cool, so crazy, so gay gay gay!
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Whoa. I just read the quick Wiki summary of Highsmith. Really fascinating stuff. I can't believe she's from Fort Worth. That biography BEAUTIFUL SHADOW looks really good. But I'll have to start with her fiction. Thanks for reminding me of a writer I've always wanted to read, Steph!
ReplyDeleteI was just reading the NYT review of the Patricia Highsmith biography and god, she sounds almost scary! fascinating, too.
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