Friday, August 10, 2007

What do you recommend?

Help me fill in some holes in my reading. What are your choices for the best Cornell Woolrich, Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Charles Willeford? Guide my reading for the months leading up to Noircon. A native Philadelphian, I have to go. Thanks.
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4 comments:

Peter Rozovsky said...

I haven't read as much of those guys as I should have, but Savage Night by Thompson will keep you up at night. If you do come to Philadelphia for NoirCon, we can take a walk along the short route that David Goodis' protagonist takes in that excellent story "Black Pudding."
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9:52 PM
Anonymous said...

For Woolrich, the uniform Ballantine paperbacks of twenty years ago was a wonderful resource, and the REAR WINDOW AND OTHER STORIES volume as good a start as any. You've read Gorman's BLACK LIZARD anthologies?

11:01 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...

I'll look for these, Todd. Thanks.

8:18 AM
Mike White said...

Hey fellow Detroiter. I'm going to be down at Noircon too. Moderating a panel with Nick Kazan and Howard Rodman about their adaptations of David Goodis's "The Professional Man." More about that in the latest issue of my zine, Cashiers du Cinemart.

And, yes, Noircon is tightly connected to Goodis (and this year's Goodiscon).

9:56 PM

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