The Lowdown Tag

‘The Lowdown,’ Jim Thompson and the Ghosts of Noir Over on his most recent newsletter, critic and “punk whisperer” Jim Ruland makes an interesting assertion about crime fiction: “One my gripes against contemporary crime fiction is how conservative it is. All genre fiction is conservative in that it adheres to the conventions of the genre that set it apart from other forms of writing. Many contemporary writers take this as a cue to write conservatively, in other words to conform, reinforcing the tropes of crime, mystery, and suspense. This bores me.”Read More