“I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas”:
On Tuesday, December 5, at 6 PM , the Library of America hosts a killer lineup of panelists to explore the two-volume set, Crime Novels of the 1960s, edited by Geoffrey O’Brien.
To cap the LOA LIVE’s fall season, the panel will discuss such compelling crime thrillers as Margaret Millar’s The Fiend, Ed McBain’s 87th-Precinct classic Doll, Donald Westlake-writing-as-Richard Stark’s The Score, Fredric Brown’s The Murderers. and Patricia Highsmith’s eerie vision of an American in Africa ,The Tremor of Forgery.
In The Fiend, Margaret Millar, who was married to Ross Macdonald, creates a gem of great psychological complexity in a suburban setting that may seem as far removed from crime as the Santa Rosa of Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. Ed McBain, the acknowledged master of the police procedural, is a poet of the precincts in his ability to generate multiple levels of meaning and irony from “Doll,” the single word that serves as his title. In The Murderers, the driving force of Fredric Brown’s plot presents murder as the culmination of a sequence of events following a drunkard’s irrefutable logic.
Join Geoffrey O’Brien, editor of Crime Novels of the 1960s, along with noir maven Sarah Weinman (The Real Lolita), cultural critic Gene Seymour, and poet David Lehman (The Mysterious Romance of Murder) for an arresting dive into nine astonishingly inventive novels that pulse with the energies of a turbulent, transformative decade.
There will be a brief Q&A at the end of the program; you will be able to type a question and submit it to the event moderator.
Registration is required to attend this event. Library of America, a nonprofit organization, champions our nation’s cultural heritage by publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions and providing resources for readers to explore this rich, living legacy.
Tuesday, December 5
6:00–7:00 PM ET
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This online event is free, but you must preregister to attend.
We thank our promotional partners: the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics & Writers and Film Noir Foundation.
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