tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post8547971133098132686..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: I'm Sure You'll All AgreeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-61924823617878062412015-09-03T18:13:19.403-05:002015-09-03T18:13:19.403-05:00A strange fate, indeed.A strange fate, indeed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-59646289876225650352015-09-03T17:48:07.725-05:002015-09-03T17:48:07.725-05:00Jerome Weidman's I'LL NEVER GO THERE ANYMO...Jerome Weidman's I'LL NEVER GO THERE ANYMORE (1941)is a fine "Young Man in New York" novel that missed getting a lot of attention because it was published in December of 1941, when lots of folks had lots of other concerns, but 6 pages of it were turned into the movie HOUSE OF STRANGERS (1949) and then remade as a Western, BROKEN LANCE (1954) surely the strangest fate ever to befall a New York novel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14826624693734173136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-29539850954613533752015-09-03T11:39:58.153-05:002015-09-03T11:39:58.153-05:00It just occurred to me that I'd put Richard Wr...It just occurred to me that I'd put Richard Wright's Native Son in there somewhere, too.Don Coffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07198988872512792834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-42257429377655703422015-09-03T11:36:38.710-05:002015-09-03T11:36:38.710-05:00It's hard to argue with the NYPL about somethi...It's hard to argue with the NYPL about something like this, and I've been only a tourist, not a resident. But I'd add something by Chester Himes to the Harlem section. (He may not be "high-brow" enough, though.)<br /><br />(One could do this with poetry, but I think Lawrence Ferlinghetti has it mostly locked up with A Coney Island of the Mind and A Far Rockaway of the Heart.)Don Coffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07198988872512792834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-78184115175946294072015-09-03T11:17:03.023-05:002015-09-03T11:17:03.023-05:00Here I was expecting it to be all Manhattan, so at...Here I was expecting it to be all Manhattan, so at least she got that right. I'd add under Brooklyn:<br /><br />Red Hook<br />Gabriel Cohen, Red Hook<br />Ivy Pochoda, Visitation Street<br /><br />I don't remember Bay Ridge in Last Exit to Brooklyn, but it's been a long time. It was what is now Sunset Park (then just South Brooklyn) and maybe a little Red Hook.<br /><br />Some of Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder books are in Brooklyn, like A Walk Among the Tombstones at Greenwood Cemetery.<br /><br />I'd add Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn to Boerum Hill.<br /><br />Thomas Boyle's Only the Dead Know Brooklyn has scenes in a number of areas.<br />Reed Farrel Coleman's Moe Prager books often center on Coney Island and Bensonhurst.<br /><br />Queens<br />Rockaway<br />Jill Eisenstadt, From Rockaway<br /><br />I'm sure there are many others, like Westlake's Dancing Aztecs and most of the Dortmunder series.<br /><br />Jeff<br />Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-73943253591137962802015-09-03T10:33:38.058-05:002015-09-03T10:33:38.058-05:00I've read more than I expected. I don't ca...I've read more than I expected. I don't call Up In The Old Hotel a novel, it's an essay collection. I'll be interested to see what Jeff says.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.com