RE-READING ELLIOT CHAZE ~

If there's one crime novel Jim Thompson

could have written, and it would have been

one of his best, but he didn't, because Elliot Chaze did,

it's the rough & tumble Black Wings Has My Angel ~

reissued by the literary godmothers and godfathers

of The New York Review of Books after it

was first published as a pulp from

 Gold Medal Books in 1953

smack dab in the Jim Thompson era.

It's an armored car heist.

There's a bad boy and a bad girl.

What are you waiting for?

[ BA ]

RE-READING T H E D E V I L T H U M B S A R I D E ~

Gifford knows his noir. The essays are better than some

of the films he writes about

— E L M O R E     L E O N A R D

This is one of my all-time favorite books on

the cinema, never mind film noir.

It's literary in all the right ways

and film-love whispered into your

ear from the guy sitting

behind you.

{BA}

ELLIOTT CHAZE ~

 Recently re-issued by the unstoppable New York Review of Books editions

with an excellent introduction by Barry Gifford who knows his stuff —

if you've read your Thompson, Himes and Goodis complete

and are searching for a novel that meets their mark

 this is the one.

 

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