[PEN-L:3359] Re: Re: The pleasures of pulp fiction

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yup. Rent "Out of Sight". It is set in Detroit's wealthy neighborhood.
What's it called? Something Park. I'll call you tomorrow about the email deal.

Lou

At 02:08 PM 2/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Isn't Leonard from Detroit  ?
>
>Charles Brown
>
>Detroit
>
>>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> 02/14 12:14 PM >>>
>My idea of great fiction is something like "Cuba Libre," Elmore Leonard's
>1998 historical novel about the Spanish-American war. The main character is
>an ex-bank robber and cowboy who has come to Cuba to sell horses to a rich
>plantation owner, and guns to the rebels. Leonard's sympathies are with the
>rebels.
>
>Most people know Leonard from his crime novels such as "Stick" or "Get
>Shorty" which have been made into popular Hollywood movies. There is little
>question that this is what he does best and he has never pretended that he
>is anything than what he is, a writer of pulp fiction. What's interesting
>is that every so often he deals with leftish themes, such as the pro-rebel
>"Cuba Libre" or the anti-contra "Bandits," a novel written in the late 1980s.
>

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)