With the kind permission of Mr. Bill and The Not So Private Eye editor Andy Jaysnovitch, we present this time-lost study in Crocodilology. It appeared in NSPE 10 in 1982. The final page featured the beginning of another article (not by Bill), so I plugged in a couple of book reviews from elsewhere in the issue. The first, I assume, is by Andy himself. The other is by that young whippersnapper author of Texas Wind.
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So, Bill wasn't yet familiar with the other sort of Sayles film (or fiction)...but I'd forgotten why he'd be onto Pynchon, in part, from jump.
ReplyDeleteA real pity how long it took TEXAS WIND, at least, to find another home. In Conneticut in the early '70s, Manor Books were pretty easily available. Maybe nowhere elee.
Absolutely wonderful to read, thanks Evan. Crider had a sense of humor then.
ReplyDeleteHe still does. I wish he'd write a blockbuster croc novel, up to date so we cold have cell phones ringing inside like the alarm clock in the alligator of Peter Pan fame. Maybe atom bomb tests have made the crocs intelligent and they use laptop computers to blog and lure people into the sewers to meet them...
Take over Bill.
I second that motion! Get to work, Bill. The world awaits your Croc epic. It's the book you were born to write.
ReplyDeleteIf I weren't so old and lazy, I'd write it. But now I have to leave it to the younger guys.
ReplyDeleteConceit is the quicksand of success.
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