I& #39;ve always loved noirs. One of my fave definitions of them is from Nino Frank: "They are essentially psychological narratives with the action—however violent or fast-paced—less significant than faces, gestures, words—than the truth of the characters.” Nowadays, they are not--
so popular, at least in publishing. Editors have told me it& #39;s because the current preference is for & #39;domestic noirs,& #39; which have become almost synonymous with white women in peril narratives (and which to me read like updated Gothic novels).
But I love the microscopic power of
But I love the microscopic power of
the old fashioned noir. How it zeroes in on the grime and the people. My favorite writer of noirs was probably Charles Williams. But Cornell Woolrich has many books to recommend. At his best, as this article says, he writes from "a well of pure emotion" https://crimereads.com/the-noir-poetry-and-doomed-romanticism-of-cornell-woolrich/">https://crimereads.com/the-noir-...