tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961352325595827919.post8612779519790309835..comments2023-10-31T09:55:24.612-05:00Comments on The Night Editor: THE BLIND ALLEY is here!Jake Hinksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12959106997436699346noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3961352325595827919.post-91392809561137924732015-03-29T15:27:48.216-05:002015-03-29T15:27:48.216-05:00I discovered your noirness on Criminal Element bac...I discovered your noirness on Criminal Element back in December. I plowed through every post and every one in the archives. I came to expect a new post from you every couple of days, not realizing that December was an anomaly. Sometime in the wasteland of January/February, I discovered you were working on a book of noir essays. It came yesterday (Amazon) and it was like noir Christmas. I plowed through the whole thing in a day and, as with the blog posts, I'm sure I will be rereading it in chunks pretty much constantly. <br /><br />Your noir essays are the first I've come across that are inspiring and invigorating for me on the level of that great little Barry Gifford book from the 80s. I couldn't care less about dry academic writing. I'm sure I'm not alone in craving cock-eyed idiosyncratic opinions of people who love what I love only more so. I don't need someone to tell me what x means. I want someone at my kitchen table saying, "holy **** you have got to see this!" We all have those friends who perform that function for us in different areas, music, movies, books, etc. One of the great things about blogs and the internet is that it's possible to bump into many more of such people. Genre Obi Wans. <br /><br />The book is great and I'm sure I will be responsible for selling a couple dozen copies as I foist it on my friends and anyone who will listen. But I have a question: what's the deal with the bazillion typos and proofing errors in the book? Okay, not a bazillion, but at least ten or so that popped out at me. The weird thing is that there are misspellings in the book that are not present in the original blog post of the same essay (e.g. "smoother" for "smother" in the Where Danger Lives essay). I don't actually give a shit about that stuff usually, and in fact expect it on blogs where things are written quickly and there aren't editors and stuff. But for typos that weren't there in the blog to be ADDED to the presumably proofed book is bizarre. <br /><br />Anyway, I was pissed off on your behalf. I am a huge fan and will be studiously buying and reading everything of yours that's available. (Also, if you wouldn't mind publishing an insightful blog post on an under-appreciated noir film or actor, say one a day into perpetuity, that would be awesome. Cool, thanks!)Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11343695966615755196noreply@blogger.com