by Robert Luedeman | Apr 26, 2022 | Blog, Noir
I’ve been packing down the good, the bad and the ugly for a while now and I believe that assembling a foundation library is critical to appreciating noir fiction. Sort of a canon, as the literary gents say. I don’t mention understanding, because noir is understandable...
by Robert Luedeman | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog, Book Reviews, Noir
Otto Penzler, the dean of noir, has this to say about the genre. “Noir works, whether films, novels or short stories, are existential, pessimistic tales about people, especially protagonists who are seriously flawed and morally questionable. The tone is generally...
