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so while i was seeing if the academic library here had any jim thompson i found these two awesome library of america collections you miiiiiight wanna look for:

http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=1 - 'american noir of the 1930s and 40s'
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=2 - 'american noir of the 1950s'

what's even better is if you take the dust jackets off like the library here has done they're not hideous!

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

thread derail (too much coffee - ):

jonathan lethem is editing a philip dick volume for them!

the choice of novels is fairly yawnsome

but it has a photo on the cover of dick and his cat ^_^

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't that come out already?

I was just visiting my friend in Seattle who collects LoA books (he has most of them, but not those noir books), and we debated the covers. I used to think, before I had really looked at them, that they were kinda trashy, because of those black ugly covers, with their dumb calligraphy, but I like the samey look they have on the shelf and my friend points out that they usually pick great author photos.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

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