Nathanael Booth(Hanceville, Alabama)
There have been times over the past year or so when I’ve fancied myself a kind of detective. Granted, that sort of thing is not far from my mind anyway—I am a Ph.D. student with a special interest in American genre fiction—but sometimes the pulp fixation is closer to the surface than others. Here, for instance. I’m sitting at the intern desk right now, papers piled into collapsing towers all around me—the detritus of a year’s worth of searching—coffee (too weak) close to my hand. Give me a fedora and I’m Alan Ladd. Or not, really, since Ladd could carry a tune and usually worked with Veronica Lake.
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