Black Noir

[NaokoSmith]

Those who're brown stick around! Or is it, those who brown stick around?

Um, I think that's a compliment?
honey.
Perhaps you are right, and I have just not been very good at brown-nosing. Are there any tips in here on brown-nosing? No no! I mean in a metaphorical, not a practical way!

A few hasty words from an online moron can sometimes trigger the most painful response. I'm sorry that someone you apparently formed a rapport with turned about and used that rapport against you. Unfortunately, with the ultimate anonymity of the Internet, even apparent friends can stab you in the back with impunity.

But, as I suspected, you're a stronger woman.

And, to both keep the thread on track and to maintain the relevance to you, Duchess, I offer this quote from Mr. Himes:

I like both Chester Himes's black noir and his more realist writing. His novel set in a prison is an astoundingly tender love story. It's published as Cast the First Stone or Yesterday Will Make You Cry. One version has the sexuality stripped out of it, leaving just a kiss. Later on publishers recovered the novel and added back in a lot of the material which had been edited out to make it more commercial.

(Thank you again, sweet pea .)

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I just read a story by Edward P. Jones about a black who goes to prison, comes out to a dishwasher job and rat infested room plus the insults and fear of his family, and the self destruction of his old friends.

Started a book by black writer Gar Anthony Haywood.

Both are Himes without the fun.

 

[NaokoSmith]

I just read a story by Edward P. Jones about a black who goes to prison, comes out to a dishwasher job and rat infested room plus the insults and fear of his family, and the self destruction of his old friends.

Started a book by black writer Gar Anthony Haywood.

Both are Himes without the fun.

Himes is a genius writer, hard to find his equal. The absurd humour makes the hard-hitting realism bearable.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Um, I think that's a compliment?
honey.
Perhaps you are right, and I have just not been very good at brown-nosing. Are there any tips in here on brown-nosing? No no! I mean in a metaphorical, not a practical way!



I like both Chester Himes's black noir and his more realist writing. His novel set in a prison is an astoundingly tender love story. It's published as Cast the First Stone or Yesterday Will Make You Cry. One version has the sexuality stripped out of it, leaving just a kiss. Later on publishers recovered the novel and added back in a lot of the material which had been edited out to make it more commercial.

(Thank you again, sweet pea .)

What the world needs is a decent imperial training academy. Charles comes across as a clueless ass with an ugly wife.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Still slogging thru the black noir anthology. Two stories are so lame I'm thunderstruck. In one of them a female detective rescues an orphan puppy she finds at the murder scene. Gosh! I was flummoxed with awwwwwwwww. Kinder, gentler noir.

The other starts off in one direction and soon goes in every direction and ends up no place in particular. As near as I can see the writer made a stab at replicating Dashiell Hammett's old THE SCORCHED PHOTO story but left out all the good stuff. In a nutshell: A religious cult leader influences his flock to make him their beneficiary, and then they mysteriously die. One of the detectives divines the cult leaders participation, browbeats the man into confessing to the manipulations, but never reveals squat about the deaths.