The first modern noir story is Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers.” Several of Hemingway’s short stories have noir aspects (notably “My Old Man” and “Fifty Grand”) but none so much as “The Killers.” “The Killers” is a Nick Adams story. Adams, a fictional stand in for Hemingway,...
The last post concerned the cinematic origins of noir. So, is noir an exclusively a cinematic art form? Most definitely not. It can be argued that noir dates back to Ancient Greece (“Oedipus Rex” “Antigone”) except that in Greek tragedy the main characters are of an...
This blog is going to be about things I like, which are many and varied, but mostly about crime fiction and, in particular, noir, both film and literary. Noir is something I feel strongly about. Why? First, like jazz and the blues, noir is an...