Category Archives: Rural noir

Wake in Fright

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Andrew Nette| 3 Comments

Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. While it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961 novel Wake … Continue reading →

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Rural noir

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Andrew Nette| 2 Comments

Rural crime fiction is big at the moment. US authors like Daniel Woodrell (Winter’s Bone and The Outlaw Album) have been writing “country noir” for years. Arguably people like Jim Thompson did it for a long time before him. And … Continue reading →

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