NP but tangential

[Mark Kohut]

I once met Robert Parker at a book autographing......told him that a scene in his novel where his detective chokes a guy unto death was SO good, SO
REALISTIC I couldn't forget it.............
 
He said, smiling, i was 'sick"....

--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> Subject: NP but tangential
> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:31 PM
> With all this talk of detectives and
> genre fiction, not one comment so
> far on the passing of Robert B Parker.
> 
> Not a fan of the books, but he did revitalize the genre.
> Also a very
> nice man on the occasions that we crossed paths.
>