ROSS MACDONALD: From pulp to Pleiades

[Monte Davis]

​Yes. Familes and what is said/unsaid, done/left undone within them. It
worked for the Oresteia and Hamlet, for the darknesses in MacDonald's sunny
coast, for the Traverses and Wheelers and Tarnow-Loefflers. You don't even
need a big shaggy crime or curse or Inverarity inheritance, just humanness
bouncing and reflecting down the generations.


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On Dec 4, 2015 10:19 AM, "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are a lot of his books now on Kindle,  many of which I read a very
> long time ago. One of my favorite authors.
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> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:55 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
>> To: mark.kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2015 7:51 pm
>> Subject: Re: ROSS MACDONALD: From pulp to Pleiades
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>> Ross MacDonald was not as good a writer as Hammett, or even Chandler but
>> good.  But what a great plotter. His plots are the best -- no (unexplained
>> ) coincidences, everything unlikely, but everything fully resolved and
>> logical.  I like him a lot.  Also was in love with Eudora Welty, and she,
>> it seems, with him.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Cc: Mark M. <pov at ix.netcom.com>; John Crutcher <jcrutcher at gmail.com>;
>> Dan Guenther <GuentherD1 at aol.com>; Christopher Kerr <
>> christopherker at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2015 3:56 pm
>> Subject: ROSS MACDONALD: From pulp to Pleiades
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