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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: the wonks are in: what do they read for fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.233357.4166@eff.org>
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- References: <BxF1G7.7L@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM> <1dkh1lINNfkv@chnews.intel.com> <1992Nov9.163203.13322@grebyn.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:33:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.163203.13322@grebyn.com> fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster) writes:
-
- >But here's
- >what I've noticed in the _Post_: a fifty-item list of "ins" and "outs"
- >published on the day after the election includes only one recognizable
- >reference to books--detective books (in) vs. Dan Jenkins books (out);
- >an otherwise-insightfuly essay by Hal Hinson on the "new cultural
- >revolution" in popular taste mentions no books (unless you count
- >Madonna's _Sex_); and a Jamie Malanowski (editor of _Spy_, author of
- >the novel _Mr._Stupid_Goes_to_Washington_) essay on the same subject
- >mentions only "Walter Mosley novels and fried green tomatoes" (in).
-
- <text deleted>
- >
- >In the meantime, I'm glad to hear I'm in with the Clinton crowd <thin
- >smile> as a reader of detective novels. Which authors are supposed to
- >be _au_courant_--does anyone know? James Lee Burke, perhaps?
- >Lawrence Block? Bill Pronzini? Andrew Vachss?
-
- Walter Mosely, for one.
-
- FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLESTOP CAFE, as all true Texans know,
- is by Texan author Fannie Flagg.
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- --Mike
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