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February 11, 2004
OGIC: Friends in high places
The new issue of the online lit journal Bookslut includes an epistolary review of an epistolary novel (is this some kind of twisted homage à Kakutani, Ed?) and a selling piece by Sarah about discovering midcentury crime writer Dorothy B. Hughes, who has just been put back into print:Hughes wasn't aiming to write a conventional whodunit. Instead, she chose a much bolder task, crafting a psychological thriller from the point of view of someone who is morally ambiguous to say the least....[Hughes] uses a similar device that popped up in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me and many books by many authors since, but Hughes trumped Thompson on two counts: first, In A Lonely Place, published in 1947, predated Thompson's book by five years. Second and more importantly, Hughes is far more subtle at revealing the level of [the character's] depravity.
Sold.
Posted February 11, 2004 12:47 PM
