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Dorothy B. Hughes, In a Lonely Place
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The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes, 1963
In the mystery/detective story genre, I’m far less keen on the tedious process of determining who dunnit or the magnitude of the horror than I am in the quality or uniqueness of the writing. In fact, I was impressed with the desert noir atmosphere and sense of dread. The factor of race adds a major complication to the story, and Hughes gives the reader a real sense of racism from the minority’s perspective.
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2023 Round-Up:
Books Read in 2023
didn't meet my reading goal of 25, but i did manage to read 3 more books than last year! stars represent my ten favorites.
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#robert montgomery#Universal Pictures#ben hecht#charles lederer#dorothy b. hughes#russell metty#film noir#crime#Small Town Life#fbi#1947#1940s#usa#mexico
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there was a whole big rework i did way back when i was writing it, and only a little of the original remains, but from the outset i was extremely to committed to one Bit in particular; the idea that when the POV very briefly cuts to Gloria the writing style changes to reveal that she is also having a constant stream of extremely biased overwritten detective monologues, we just don't happen to see them
#dead woman walking#dead man talking#gloria roche#it's a pastiche in general but i'm trying to invoke a very specific style right. i'd like to think it's 'mine'#but you see what i'm going for#gloria's writing style is slightly more winding and poetic lots more nested commas#because i'm gunning more for a dorothy b hughes#it was originally going to be a whole chapter and i spent ages researching nuclear physics stuff to sell it#but then i read it back and realised the whole story read better without that part. and went. ah fuck#and exploded it#text post
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It’s complicated, my darling - The Prologue
“Ada is an operative in the 1940s from Brighton in England, sent over to New York City to work with the Americans, uncovering secrets and spying on potential suspects. She meets a handsome young man, Nick Folio, on the train into the city; little does she know how that moment would change the trajectory of her life”
Parings: Nick folio X OFC
Word count: 1.4K
Chapter Warnings: brief hinting at death, explicit language
Series master list
(see masterlist for overall warnings, chapter begins below the cut)
Ada
May 19th 1941
New York City, USA
8:23 am
Dear Diary,
Spring is coming any day now, the chill has died off and flowers are beginning to bloom, but I’ll say the air here in America feels a bit thicker when you’re not by the sea. Oh, I miss the seaside, Dad says they closed the beaches back in Brighton last year after Dunkirk, it was too dangerous to keep them open. It’s a shame, our Peggy loved the beach. We used to buy her a 99 and take a walk down the pier watching the seagulls nick a chip out of an unsuspecting victim’s hand. This one time, Peggy laughed so hard she dropped her ice cream and made me and the old man march back down the pier to buy her a new one, just to do the walk up the pier all over again. I would give anything to see her smile again but for now, it’s back to business aye?
Speaking of business, my dick of a boss, John, back in England assigned me a new mission yesterday. Something about money being stolen from one of the precincts in the city? I'm not sure, I haven’t gotten all the details yet but I guess I’ll find out more in today’s briefing at the head office.
Anyway, must be off. My train into the city should be here any minute now and God knows my grumpy sod of a boss will have my head if I’m late to another meeting.
Talk soon.
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“Excuse me, ma’am, would you mind if I sit here? All the other seats are taken”
You avert your eyes from the book you’ve been engrossed in for the past 10 minutes; “The So Blue Marble” by Dorothy B. Hughes, a truly riveting thriller novel. Bookmarking your page, your gaze meets the handsome young chap standing before you.
“Oh yes of course, please, sit down” He’s a rather handsome fellow, clean-shaven with his hair slicked with a side part, perfectly framing his chiselled jaw. Heat flushes across your cheeks and you can’t help but feel a little flustered as he takes a seat in front of you.
“Thank you, Ma’am” He extends his arm for a handshake.
“Please, call me Ada”
“A pleasure, Ada” You can’t help but notice his peculiar accent, it appears to be a southern accent of sorts but you can’t quite place it.
“Is that a southern accent I hear- oh sorry, I didn’t ask your name?”
“Ah no, Maryland although I do get that a lot, and no worries. The name’s Nick but everyone calls me Folio” You tilt your head ever so slightly at the nickname, wondering how that came to be. As if he already knew your next question, he smiles.
“My surname Is Folio, there’s another Nick amongst my friends so over time I just became Folio”
“Aah makes sense. Well, it’s lovely to meet you, Folio” You flash a smile, trying your best not to blush too hard.
“Judging by your accent, you’re from England I assume? What brings you to America, New York City at that?”. It’s the dreaded question you always fear to answer. Although you’re trained to lie, to be deceitful, you can’t help but feel a little guilty each time you respond to that question. It’s not easy to live your life pretending to be someone you’re not, half of the time you’re not even sure what’s real anymore; but that’s the job. Everyone is doing what they can to help the war effort, you included and if that means putting up a facade each day, then so be it.
“My family evacuated from England, we would’ve gone to Canada but my brother is deployed here in the States” You feel your heart drop to your stomach. This isn’t a complete lie; your mother and older sister, Mary and Agnes, did evacuate from England, but the ship carrying them to Canada took a devastating blow and ultimately sunk; the total casualties are still unknown. No one knows the whereabouts of your brother, Dennis. You received a telegram in July last year to notify that he was M.I.A when he didn’t return to base with his aircrew. So, no, it wasn’t a complete lie but you have to carry the sadness on your own.
“So, what will a gorgeous lady like you be doing in the city? ” He leans forward on the table, raising his left eyebrow. His words make your heartbeat speed up a million miles an hour. Of course, he doesn’t know the real reason you’re in the city but a little fun can’t hurt, right?
“I’m looking around for a job but most businesses are shut and I’m not first aid trained, so that’s pretty much any job out of the question” Another lie.
“Well, I can’t give you a job but If you ever want some company, please feel free to come down to the 13th precinct. I’d be happy to keep you company” His flirtatious manner doesn’t go unnoticed, nothing overly forward but enough to make your face burn up. A high-pitched whistle blows outside of the train and it isn’t until you see passengers standing up collecting their belongings from the overhead shelves that you realise you’ve reached your destination. You both walk off of the train onto the platform, pushing through the crowd of busybodies.
“Well I must be going, I’ve got some job interviews lined up today. It was lovely meeting you, Folio”
“You too, Ada. Good luck with the interviews, I’m sure you’ll find something soon”. Folio, once again, extends his arm for a handshake. Saying your goodbyes, you make your way along the path towards the north exit gate but your attention is averted as you hear that familiar, not-so-southern, voice.
“I hope you take me up on that offer, Ada!”. He bellows. Turning on your heels, you chuckle thinking about the gorgeously mysterious man you just met.
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“Ah right on time Chapman, makes a change. I was beginning to wonder if that pretty face of yours knew how to tell the time” Alfred, your other male chauvinist pig of a boss, says as you walk into the meeting room.
“Morning Alfred, Sir” Oh how you’d love nothing more than to punch his disgusting, smug face, but you need this job and you need the money, especially if you want to get your dad and Peggy over here in the States.
“As John mentioned to you yesterday, he has assigned you a new mission. The higher-ups believe that someone in the 13th precinct is stealing money from their funding-”
“Sorry to interrupt you, sir, but did you say the 13th precinct?” This can’t be possible, surely not?
“For fuck sake Ada, maybe if you spent less time dressing like a whore and more time paying attention you would’ve heard me. Yes, I said the 13th precinct now shut up and listen” Anger rises through your body as he berates you in front of your team, but you take a deep breath, reminding yourself not to give him the satisfaction of a reaction.
“Sorry, sir. Please continue”
“As I was saying, you will be tracking one man. We believe he is acting alone, stealing money to put into an offshore account. You will be working at the precinct undercover as an accountant, you will need to keep track of all the money that goes in and out of their accounts. You’ll be given a written brief with more details. Make sure to read it thoroughly after the meeting ends, if that’s even possible for that empty fucking head of yours. We will go over the target’s name and description so everyone is aware of exactly who the suspect is”. Annie, Alfred’s assistant, hands out copies of the brief around the table.
Flipping over the first page, which details the goal of the mission, you see the name of the suspect.
“Fuck” Is all you can mutter out under your breath as you stare at the page, mouth agape in disbelief.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” There’s no denying the name and image that’s staring right back at you. Is this a sick joke? A punishment for leaving your family behind?
“Billy, can you please read out the suspect’s name and character description” A part of you still hopes that you’re imagining what you’re seeing in front of you.
“Nick Folio, sir”
There’s no such thing as fate, but the universe has a funny way of deciding it for you.
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AN: i genuinely loved writing this first chapter. I hope you guys will love this story as much as me, please let me know your thoughts! also please let me know if you’d like to be tagged for each chapter :)
reminder my inbox is always open if you’d rather send your thoughts anonymously (no fic requests)
#nick folio#bad omens#bad omens band#nick folio fanfiction#nick folio fanfic#nick folio fluff#nick folio smut#nick folio x ofc#nick folio au#alternate universe#1940s#noah sebastian#nicholas ruffilo#jolly karlsson#bad omens fic#nick folio fic#fish boy#4rtificialfolio#it’s complicated my darling
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I've been on a streak of watching Noir films (though I've slowed down recently), since it's one of my favorite genres as well. I go on movie sites and just find as many as I can to add to my watchlist. What would you say is your favorite one?
My favorite of them all is In a Lonely Place (1950) with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. I think it's the finest performance of Bogart's career, and it lays bare in stunningly powerful fashion how our own darker impulses can derail our lives. (I don't know whether you're into noir fiction as well, but if you are: the novel on which it's based, by the great Dorothy B. Hughes, is equally brilliant, though very different.)
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Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart in In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks. Screenplay: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, based on a story by Dorothy B. Hughes. Cinematography: Burnett Guffey. Art direction: Robert Peterson. Film editing: Viola Lawrence. Music: George Antheil.
The "lonely place" is Hollywood, where Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) is a screenwriter with a barely held-in-check violent streak. This celebrated movie contains one of Bogart's best performances, though it looks and feels like the low-budget production it was. Bogart's own company, Santana, produced it for release through Columbia, instead of Bogart's employer, Warner Bros., which may explain why, apart from Bogart and Gloria Grahame, the supporting cast is so unfamiliar: The best-known face among them is Frank Lovejoy, who plays Bogart's old army buddy, now a police detective. In a Lonely Place seems to be set in a different Hollywood from the one seen in the year's other great noir melodrama, Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. There are no movie star cameos and glitzy settings in the Bogart film. What this one has going for it, however, is a haunting, off-beat quality, along with some surprising heat generated between Bogart and Grahame, who plays Laurel Gray, a would-be movie actress with an intriguing, only partly glimpsed past that hints at a sapphic subtext. She has, for example, a rather bullying masseuse (Ruth Gillette), who seems to be a figure out of this past. In fact, the whole film is made up of enigmatic figures, including Steele's closest friends, his agent, Mel Lippman (Art Smith), and an aging alcoholic actor, Charlie Waterman (Robert Warwick). Both of them stick with Steele despite his tendency to fly off the handle: He insults and at one point even slugs the agent, while at another he defends the actor with his fists against an insult. Though the central plot has to do with Steele's being suspected of murdering a hat-check girl (Martha Stewart) he brought to his apartment to tell him the plot of a novel he's supposed to adapt, the film is less a murder mystery than a study of a damaged man and his inability to overcome whatever made him that way. And despite the usual tendency of Hollywood films to end with a resolution by tying up loose ends, In a Lonely Place leaves its characters as tensely enigmatic as they were at the start -- perhaps even more so.
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Great American Novels
Time for another of those "look at a list of Great Novels and see how many I've read" things - though my memory does begin to fail me a bit, especially when it comes to 'worthy' books that I may have heard *of* a lot but not actually read.
The Great Gatsby
Yes, for school. Was I particularly taken with it? No. Never bothered watching any movie adaptation and can never remember what it was about in detail, I always have to look it up.
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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Author name sounds familiar, but I dont know what this book is without looking it up… nope, have not read this. It's public domain now so I could, I guess.
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The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein
I've heard of her. I have not read this book.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
I have heard of Willa Cather and may have read something by her but probably not this.
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A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway
Obviously know who Hemingway is but cannot tell you whether I've read this or not. I don't know, sorry.
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Passing, Nella Larsen
No familiarity.
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The Sound and the Fury + Absalom, Absalom, Faulkner
I don't like Faulkner. This opinion likely stems from ahving been forced to read something he wrote in school and being annoyed by it. However, I can't tell you what I read. I've read about both of these and may or may not have read some part of one of them at some point.
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
No familiarity, but now that I look it up on wikipedia, I need to actually go find that for research purposes, this seems relevant to my interests.
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East Goes West, Younghill Kang
Never heard of it, I assume it has to do with the Chinese in California? Oops, no, Korean, sorry.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Heard of it. Haven't read it.
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USA, John Dos Passos
No familiarity.
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Ask the Dust, John Fante
No familiarity
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
I've heard of it but mostly because there's a movie, which I also haven't seen.
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The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
I thought I'd heard of the author but it appears probably not. No familiarity then.
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The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
Had to read it for school.
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Native Son, Richard Wright
Heard of it.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
No familiarity.
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A Time to be Born, Dawn Powell
No familiarity.
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All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Heard of it.
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The Street, Ann Petry
No familiarity.
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In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B Hughes
Heard of the author.
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The Mountain Lion, Jean Stafford
No familiarity but the tiny amount of info on wikipedia makes me think this might be a children's adventure book.
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The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
Heard of it, sure, but never read it
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Charlotte's Web, E B White
Yes, I read this!
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Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Nope
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Farenheit 451, Bradbury
Obviously familiar with the general idea but never read it.
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Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks
No familiarity.
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The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
No familiarity
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Lolita, Nabokov
Yes, I read this of my own free will in college (and I'm glad of it, because the impression I had of the novel before reading it was very far off what the book actually was, so at least now I have an informed opinion)
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Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
No familiarity.
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Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
Name sounds familiar though I suspect it was made into a miniseries or something. (checking - yeah, tv show, movies, etc)
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Deep Water, Patricia Highsmith
Didn't she write The Price of Salt? (checks) Oh, and also Ripley. But I don't know this book.
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No-No Boy, John Okada
No familiarity.
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On The Road, Jack Kerouac
Heard of it.
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The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Heard of it, and read some Shirley Jackson, but I don't think I read this.
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Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Heard of it.
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A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine l'Engle
Yes, I read this and several other of her books, but this wasn't my favorite.
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Another Country, James Baldwin
Not familiar.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
Familiar with it but didn't read it.
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Pale Fire, Nabokov
DOn't know this book
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse, Ross Macdonald
No familiarity (checks) Apparently it's a detective book
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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Heard of it.
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The Group, Mary McCarthy
No familiarity
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The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
I've heard of the author.
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A Sport and a Pastime, James Salter
Is this a baseball book? (checks) Oh, I guess it's about sex. No familiarity.
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Couples, John Updike
I've heard of the author.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick
I've read several things by Dick but probably not this one and I still haven't watched Blade Runner.
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Divorcing, Susan Taubes
No familiarity.
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Portnoy's COmplaint, Philip Roth
I think I've heard of the author
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Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
Heard of it.
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Are you there God? It's me Margaret, Judy Blume
Pretty sure I read this as a kid.
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Desperate Characters, Paula Fox
No familiarity.
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Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
No familarity, but I think I've dimly heard of Joan Didion.
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Log of the Ss the Mrs Unguentine, Stanley Crawford
No familiarity
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Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
No familiarity
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Sula, Toni Morrison
No familiarity
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Oscar Zeta Acosta
No familiarity
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Oreo, Fran Ross
No familiarity, though I can guess what it's about.
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The Dispossessed, Urusla K LeGuin
I literally have a copy sitting on my to-read stack. I'll get there.
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Winter in the Blood, James Welch
No familiarity
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Corregidora, Gayl Jones
No familiarty
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Speedboat, Renata Adler
No familiarity
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Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
No familiarity.
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Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
see previous
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A Contract with God, Will Eisner
I've heard of the author
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Dancer from the Dance, Andrew Holleran
No familiarity
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The Stand, Stephen King
I'm familiar with it but did not read it.
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Kindred, Octavia E Butler
Yes, I've read this
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The Dog of the South, Charles Portis
No familiarity
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Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
No familiarity
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The Salt Eaters, TOni Cade Bambara
This sounds familiar. I don't know if I've read it, a piece of it, something inspired by it, or someone talking about it, but the plot description is very familiar.
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Little, Big; Or the Fairies Parliament, John Crowley
No familiarity.
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Oxherding Tale, Charles Johnson
No familiarity
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Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips
No familiarity
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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Heard of book and author, someone I know was going through a McCarthy phase
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A Summons to Memphis, Peter Taylor
No familiarity
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Watchmen
This should not be on this list, it's not an American novel.
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Beloved, Toni Morrison
Heard of this book specifically
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Dawn, Octavia Butler
Read it, it's on my shelf
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Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
No familiarity (and it's the circus kind of geek)
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Tripmaster Monkey, Maxine Hong Kingston
No familiarity
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Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn
No familiarity
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American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
Familiar with it. I didn't watch the movie but I read about both it and the book.
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How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, Julia Alvarez
No familiarity
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Mating, Norman Rush
No familiarity
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Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Very familiar with it. Watched the movie. Don't think I've read the book but not sure.
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The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Heard of it and been told it's good.
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So Far from God, Ana Castillo
Not familiar with it
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Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
Definitely aware of it, it was referenced a lot in some of the 90s lesbian fiction I did read, but I haven't read it.
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The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Heard of it.
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Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
I thinK i've heard of it?
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Sabbath's Theater, Philip Roth
Still think I've heard of the author
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Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes
No familiarity
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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Heard of it
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I Love Dick, Chris Kraus
No familiarity
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Underworld, Don Delillo
No familiarity.
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The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
No familiarity.
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Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
Heard of the author.
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House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski
Head of it
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier&Clay, Michael Chabon
no familiarity
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The Last Saumrai, Helen DeWitt
wasn't that a tom cruise movie (no this is apparently about a single mother)
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The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams
wasn't that a western (well, this is something else, but wikipedia isn't telling me what)
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Erasure, Percival Everett
No familiarity
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I the Divine, Rabih Alameddine
No familiarity
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The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
I have heard of the author
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Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros
No familiarity
We're past the year 2000 in publications now and I'm starting to strike out hard. I've never even heard of any of the books or authors past this point save for N.K.Jemisin and maybe Patricia Lockwood, so it got pointless to list them.
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Ocs as characters
Tagged by @shegetsburned @unbindingkerberos & @poisonedtruth to do this quiz!
Lara Darling-Jóźwiak
Ariadne (Inception)
Abed Nadir (Community)
Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)
Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)
Jemma Simmons (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Jasmine (Aladdin)
Torvi (Vikings)
Viktor (Arcane)
Angela Montenegro (Bones)
Dana Polk (The Cabin in the Woods)
Lucius Fox (The Dark Night)
Martha Nielsen (Dark)
Dorothy Gale (Wizard of Oz)
Rogue (X-Men)
El Profesor (Money Heist)
Peeta Mellark (Hunger Games)
Ada Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
Bunny O’Malley
Nomi Marks (Sense8)
Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
Abed Nadir (Community)
Elizabeth Bennett (Pride & Prejudice)
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Daisy “Skye” Johnson (Agents of Shield)
Jasmine (Aladdin)
Lagertha (Vikings)
Ekko (Arcane)
Jack Hodgins (Bones)
Marty Mikalski (The Cabin in the Woods)
Bruce Wayne (The Dark Knight)
Martha Nielsen (Dark)
The Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz)
Jean Gray (X-Men)
El Profesor (Money Heist)
Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games)
Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
Sage O’Malley
Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead)
Terry Jeffords (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Phil Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D)
Doc (Snow White and The Seven Dwarves)
Lagertha (Vikings)
Caitlyn Kiramann (Arcane)
Angela Montenegro (Bones)
Holden McCrea (The Cabin in the Woods)
Andrea Sachs (The Devil Wears Prada)
Anna Bates (Downtown Abbey)
Istredd (The Witcher)
Professor X (X-Men)
Nairobi (Money Heist)
Peeta Mellark (Hunger Games)
Jane Bennett (Pride & Prejudice)
Columbus (Zombieland)
Reaper
Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
Mr. Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)
Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)
Jemma Simmons (Agents of Shield)
Felicity Smoak (Arrow)
Elsie Hughes (Westworld)
Caitlyn Kiramann (Arcane)
Temperance Brennan (Bones)
Dana Polk (The Cabin in the Woods)
Soichiro Yagami (Death Note)
Charlotte Doppler (Dark)
Tissaia (The Witcher)
Dana Scully (The X-Files)
Ms. Sharon Norbury (Mean Girls)
Dr. Alana Bloom (Hannibal)
Mr. Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)
Nemesis
Carol Peletier (The Walking Dead)
Red Reznikov (Orange is the New Black)
Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)
Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D)
Cogsworth (Beauty & the Beast)
Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Kimiko Miyashiro (The Boys)
Sara Sidle (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
James Gordon (The Dark Knight)
Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
The Tin Man (Wizard of Oz)
Storm (X-Men)
Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Jack Crawford (Hannibal)
Kim Ki-Taek (Parasite)
Soleil
Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
Anna Bates (Downtown Abbey)
Marmee March (Little Women)
Mumen Rider (One Punch Man)
John Diggle (Arrow)
Teddy Flood (Westworld)
Ubbe Ragnarsson (Vikings)
Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
Seeley Booth (Bones)
Al Robbins (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
James Gordon (The Dark Knight)
Lucius Fox (Gotham)
The Tin Man (Wizard of Oz)
Monica Dutton (Yellowstone)
Helsinki (Money Heist)
Beverly Katz (Hannibal)
Charlie Strong (Peaky Blinders)
#tag game#quiz#i did 6 ocs bc this was a good one#tried to keep the shows consistent but there were more of the same characters than i thought there would be#so there are some shows that i switched#sage top 2 characters were both glenn#so i added an extra show at the end of his#Lara Darling-Jóźwiak#Sage O'Malley#Bunny O'Malley#r6 nemesis#Evangeline Soriano-Fuentes#r6 reaper#Rouen Blake#r6 soleil#Augustin Challiou Jr.#tag games
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Groups of writers, artists, and thinkers who share common interests, ideas, and values, and who come together to discuss and promote their work.
These groups often emerge during periods of cultural and social change and are characterized by their innovative and unconventional approach to art and ideas.
The Algonquin Round Table was a group of witty writers and critics who gathered for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. They were known for their sharp wit, humor, and wordplay. The members included Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and George S. Kaufman.
"Gertrude Stein's salon" or simply the "Stein salon" was a gathering place for writers, artists, and intellectuals in Paris during the early 20th century. Stein and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, hosted weekly gatherings in their apartment which became a center for avant-garde culture and a meeting place for artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, as well as writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T.S. Eliot.
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The Surrealists - a group of artists and writers who were associated with the Surrealist movement, which began in France in the 1920s. Members included Salvador Dali, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst.
The Inklings - a literary discussion group associated with Oxford University in the 1930s and 1940s. Members included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams.
The Black Mountain poets - a group of poets associated with Black Mountain College in North Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s. Members included Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and Denise Levertov.
The Beat Generation - a group of writers and poets who emerged in the United States in the 1950s. Members included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.
The Factory was Andy Warhol's studio and creative hub in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. A gathering place for a diverse group of artists, musicians, and other creatives. Notable figures associated with the Factory include musicians Debbie Harry and Lou Reed, artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and author Truman Capote.
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Description The NACA Muroc Contingent in October 1947 in front of the Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and Boeing B-29 launch aircraft. Standing left to right: Le Roy Proctor, Jr., Don Borchers, Harold Nemecek, Phyllis Actis Rogers, Milton McLaughlin, Roxanah Yancey, Arthur Bill Vernon, Dorothy Clift Hughes, Naomi C. Wimmer, Frank Hughes, John Mayer, Elmer Bigg, De E. Beeler. Kneeling left to right: Charles Hamilton, Joseph Vensel, Herbert Hoover, Hubert Drake, Eugene Beckwith, Walter Williams, Harold Goodman, Howard Lilly, John Gardner. Image # : EC95-43116-6 Date: October 1947
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When I first saw In A Lonely Place there was a scene that made me say “this was written by a woman”:
Well, I was half right. While the screenplay was written by Hollywood men Andrew P. Solt and Edmund H. North, the novel of the same name that it was based on was written by Dorothy B Hughes, a little-known noir novelist from the 1940s. The changes from book to film, though, are fascinating, and indicative of the different sensibilities we see from these writers. I will say there are major spoilers ahead and recommend that you at least see the film, if not read the book. They’re both short, and I think truly fascinating pieces of media that I highly recommend.
Out of context that scene may seem like a dismissal of Stella’s fears, a sort of refuting of what she’s worried about. However, in the scene before that Dix is describing, in detail, how he thinks the murderer might have killed another young woman, and uses the couple, Brub (yes, really) and Sylvia, as his body doubles. Brub (Sylvia’s husband) begins to strangle her as Dix describes the murderer doing so. Dix and Brub seem to revel in the pantomime, and Sylvia has to scream to snap them out of it. Their display makes Sylvia’s accusations here feel very real, and makes Brub’s dismissal feel even more sinister.
Now, to get the massive spoiler out of the way, the man that Sylvia there is worried about is Dixon Steele (his real name in both the book and movie... I know), and in the film, it turns out that in spite of throwing his ex-girlfriend down a flight of stairs and nearly strangling his current one, Dix is not the murderer they’re looking for. Violent? Dangerous? Well, only if you don’t treat him right. In the book though, it’s not even a twist. The first page of the book is Dix stalking a woman, and the only reason he doesn’t succeed in killing her is that she makes it to her house before he can catch up with her.
However these characters Brub and Sylvia don’t know that in either version, and neither does Laurel, his girlfriend. The film then, is a mystery: did Dix do it? While the book is more of a Patricia Highsmith-esque thriller: When will they catch him? And indeed a similar scene takes place in the book, wherein Sylvia suspects Dix, but Brub, who is an old army buddy of his, doesn’t want to believe her. Throughout both texts Laurel becomes increasingly afraid of Dix, in the film because she suspects him of murder, but in the book it’s because he’s becoming increasingly violent and possessive.
To me, it begs the question, is Sylvia right to be suspicious, as she is here, and as she is in the book? In the book the answer is unquestionably yes, Dix is a murderer, one who they catch by setting him up to kill Sylvia, when he believes she is Laurel. In the film though, it’s more complicated. On the one hand, men happily dismiss his violent tendencies, saying that it’s just how he is, and even that it makes him exciting (as we see Brub do above). But we know he seriously harmed his ex, and that at the end of the film he seriously harms Laurel. Meanwhile the Dix/Laurel romance is framed as tragic in the film, with ‘suspicion’ being blamed for its downfall. As if, if Laurel had never suspected that Dix might have killed someone, then they could have been happy. On the one hand, that claim seems ridiculous with all we see of Dix, but on the other hand, the film frames it as true.
In the final scene, Dix is strangling Laurel until they’re interrupted by a phone call. At Dix’s urging, Laurel answers, and says this:
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The important line of course being ‘yesterday this would have meant so much to us’. As long as Dix hadn’t actually strangled Laurel things would be fine! Even though that’s not the first time he’s shown violent tendencies, even though he was extremely possessive, it totally would have been okay if he just hadn’t strangled her. I emphasize her because we also know Dix physically abused his ex, and although it made Laurel nervous, it wasn’t enough for her to dump him.
And Sylvia in the lynch pin in all of this, the book, the film, the violence, for me. Because although she’s a relatively small character, she brings up questions of authority and knowledge. In both versions, she feels that something is wrong about Dix (and, to be fair, she’s not the only one, the Laurel of the book also feels something off about him, and the police commissioner in the film is convinced that Dix was the murderer too) but in the film she’s only half right. In the film, she is right that he’s violent, but in the way Dix and Laurel’s romance is depicted, as this tragic romance ruined by suspicion, there is a pretty clear through line that Laurel could have fixed him, if only she believed in his innocence. Therefore if only Sylvia, if only the police, if only everyone believed that this man, known for violent outbursts, known for abusing his girlfriends wouldn’t go as far as to kill someone, then they could have been happy together. In spite of the film's dark tone, their scenes together are truly idyllic when they're in their honeymoon phase.
And in the book, of course, its the exact opposite. If only the men around Dix believed that he could be a murderer, lives might have been saved. Fraught gender dynamics permeate most noir films, but it is interesting to see the differences that adaptational differences can make.
#films#books#classic film#noir film#women writers#movies#reviews#my writing#thoughts#noir film is wild but also the best#like I love this movie I just like being critical#Youtube
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9, 24, 25 :) ?
9. Did you get into any new genres?
Not really, though I did read one noir novel (In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes--highly recommend) after grabbing it out of a little free library down the street and would like to read more.
24. Did you DNF anything? Why?
I still intend to finish it but I got a copy of The Paradox of Democracy over the summer, read the first chapter, and never got back to it. Ironically I usually read books I own much slower because I always have a stack of library books on hand that have a return date.
25. What reading goals do you have for next year?
Related to my last answer I really am going to try to make a concerted effort to read a lot of the unread books I already own.
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do you have any noir book reps,. ive seen you read them and id like to get more into the genre
(being fucking normal) a couple!
i lied to you anon. i lied to you under the read more. i'm not normal about this at all
anything by dashiel hammet, dorothy b. hughes, lot of staples in there. if you come across a noir from the 40s/50s chances are it's based on a book and chances are that book is pretty fuckin good. i've got my friends into reading those books and the ones that've made them go 'oh i get it now' have been anything by raymond chandler, and i'm including myself in that group. the first two i read were for research, the other five i tore through because i had to see them. i'm on the last one, playback, and i can't bring myself to finish it because then it will be over. i will, i'll get there eventually, but i'll be very sad because it means my first time reading them will be done. i've read books where i've gone wow, what a turn of phrase, i've very rarely read books where every page has like, seven. me and the girls were posting excerpts in the gc going 'can you fucking believe this'. of his books, the big sleep, the little sister and the long goodbye are considered the best, but if you want my opinion i'd start off with lady in the lake. not that they're hard reads at all, i just think it's the easiest to vibe with if you're only just getting into them. it's a good barometer to see how you feel about the whole thing
“I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could have crack a Brazil nut on.
"That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it.”
i mean jesus christ. fuck
if you're looking at something contemporary, i'll have to admit to a slight gap in my knowledge, i'm mostly into the stuff written from, say, mid 20s to 50s. don't take that as a mark of quality, 'it was only good back then!' or something, more of a taste thing on my part. neo-noir is a cool (if a little nebulous and hard to categorize sometimes) take on the questions noir raises, but there's something interesting to me about seeing the first stabs at it. saying that, akashic books has a collection arranged by location, city, country, so that might be something you're interested in
what's happening in your city? probably some terrible events that leave lives in shambles! that's like, the most interesting kind!!
#text post#the only other book that's made me go JESUS CHRIST every other line was my very very favourite: perfume#which is very different stylistically but jesus fuck. i reread it once a year#don't take me as like An Authority on noir at all i'm just some random. passionate yet deeply unqualified. cool for books! bad for surgeons#also if anybody reading this needs to source an old ass miserable movie or book or whatever and doesn't know how: I Will Do It For You
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women write better noir fiction than men. i am basing this entirely on the fact that i enjoyed the two dorothy b. hughes novels i read more than the two raymond chandler novels i read
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