Many of the stories were written during a two-year flurry in the early 1950s, and they leave a trail of scorched towns and psyches from California to New York to Mexico, not just the Dust Bowl flatlands where Thompson's populist fires were stoked. Applying our modern filter, it is difficult to connect Thompson's psychopaths, grifters, drug addicts and serial murderers with farmhands clapping to Woody Guthrie songs around a campfire.
Soul of a Writer
David Geffner
2009
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The Grifters
1990
Hopperesque
Monday, 30 November 2020
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