Tough Guy Writers

THIS POST PRODUCES STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VIBES:  I believe the tough guy writers like Elmore Leonard, James M. Cain and Dashiel Hammett are extremely invigorating.  Their rough descriptions snare us and rocket us to stratospheric levels of readers' delight.  The potent crackle of James M. Cain's little novel 'Serenade' is a prime example of this fiery prose vibrancy.  It is a need...a big one...in our culture...that we should possess strong prose artists.  Get us some writers who can develop seething, mean guys, folks who dig deep into the at times blah aspects of our weird American cultural life.  If a person reads Cain, he or she will be overcome with a brand of literary sensualism that is ideological and almost hits the Leo Tolstoy plane of psychic wildness.  Listen to Patsy C. and Charlie Parker and Coltrane and Vivaldi.  Go passionately into a gigantic, multi-level lifestyle.