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Wasted by Biff Thuringer<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Posted on May 26, 2019<\/a> by Dactyl Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes I like to explore the foggy borderlands between genre fiction and literary fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raymond Chandler\u2019s crisp and evocative prose and insightful character development transcend the hard-boiled detective genre. His novel The Long Goodbye<\/em> was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as \u201carguably the first book since Hammett\u2019s The Glass Key,<\/em> published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For similar reasons, the movie Chinatown<\/em> escaped its noir pulp pigeonhole to become a classic of serious film (if such can ever come from Hollywood). Screenwriter Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski took it deeper than the standard commercial mystery pic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If \u201ceco-thriller\u201d can be said to be a genre today, Biff Thuringer\u2019s novel Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic<\/em><\/a> (Chronic Publishing\/Epigraph Books, 280 pages)  walks the liminal space where that category\u2019s conventions give way to something more, an artful challenge to everyday thinking. Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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