The Big Fix (1978)

[Mark Kohut]

I read it and I saw it....
but that was another country........

--- On Sun, 8/9/09, David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov> wrote:

> From: David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov>
> Subject: The Big Fix (1978)
> To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 9, 2009, 3:13 PM
> Never fails. I send a brief,
> informative post, and what do I hear back? Crickets. Anyway,
> you're dead right, John. Moses Wine, played by shortish,
> blondish Richard Dreyfuss, is the hero of The Big Fix. Has
> no one seen this lost classic?
> 
> Enjoy,
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]
> On Behalf Of David Kipen
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 1:52 PM
> To: Doug Millison; Pynchon-L
> Subject: RE: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...
> 
> I'm here for you, John! Not sure about stoned all the way
> through, but for my money IV recalls a decent book and even
> better movie every bit as much as much as it does Chandler,
> Macdonald or Cain: Roger Simon's The Big Fix. Know it? The
> monologue at the end from a young F. Murray Abraham stacks
> up favorably in memory against anything in The Big
> Lebowski...
> 
> 
> All finest,
> 
> David Kipen
> Literature Director, National Reading Initiatives
> Blog: www.arts.gov/bigreadblog
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> P.S. Do me a favor and please get into the habit of
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> Sorry about this, and thanks.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]
> On Behalf Of Doug Millison
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 1:37 PM
> To: Pynchon-L
> Subject: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV...
> 
> Any other examples in the genre, of a detective who's under
> the
> influence of marijuana all the way through the novel as
> seems to be
> the case with Doc?
> 
> 
>