Author Archives: jillian ohare

The Big Blow

Technically, George Pelecanos’ novel The Big Blowdown isn’t categorized as noir or hardboiled; it is known to the world simply as a “crime novel.” However, I think this book contains bits and pieces of almost every hard boiled novel we … Continue reading Continue reading

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New Gangster Squad Movie

:O So Hardboiled!!

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Kay Lake, Femme Fatale

The Femme Fetale, as we have learned from our previous readings and research on wikipedia, is a mysterious and secretive woman. She often is very sexual in nature, and can be very dangerous to characters, particularly the main character. wikipedia … Continue reading Continue reading

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1964

Here are just some of the things that happened in 1964, the year “Cotton Comes to Harlem” is published. (courtesy of Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964 February 3 – Protesting against alleged de facto school racial segregation, Black and Puerto Rican groups in … Continue reading Continue reading

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Didn’t see that coming.

Did anyone else find it sort of funny that the entire time Grave Digger and Coffin Ed are looking for all of these important, dangerous people that could have the money, and then at the end it turns out some … Continue reading Continue reading

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quick question…

I had dinner with Sarah and Leo tonight, and we were discussing our wiki project. We decided it would be smartest to post all communication on the blog (as opposed to creating a fb page or something) so other students … Continue reading Continue reading

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Essential Existential Dust

So in my literary arts class in my junior year we had a philosophy unit. And we learned about existentialism. I’m not sure if our teacher didn’t explain it very well, or if we were just too young and it … Continue reading Continue reading

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I suppose you think you’ve raised hell

Props to the Cohen Brothers! As an avid reader and aspiring writer, I feel sacrilegious saying this, but I enjoyed Miller’s Crossing so much better than Red Harvest. To me, the Cohen brothers took the good parts of Hammett’s novel, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hemingway 6X6X6

Not only does Indian camp show many of the themes common in Hemingway’s In Our Time, it also exemplifies a sort of circle of life aspect, with the baby’s birth and husband’s death almost instantaneous. In The Doctor and The … Continue reading Continue reading

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Hemingway 6X6

So it’s 11pm. And I don’t understand the internet. I’ve downloaded the images from thenounproject.com, but gimp won’t open them. So here are my six word stories… sadly, without T shirts. Indian Camp (6) A son born; a husband lost. … Continue reading Continue reading

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