Books
May, 1991
Jim Thompson was a virtually forgotten pulp crime writer of the Fifties until novelist and copublisher of Black Lizard Press Barry (Wild at Heart) Gifford rediscovered several of his early works in French on a visit to Paris and reissued them. With the recent success of the film The Grifters, based on one of his books, the Thompson revival is in full swing. According to Michael McCauley in Jim Thompson: Sleep with the Devil (Mysterious), most of his books---29 raw, sweaty novels---were churned o...
