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How could I not love this? There is some particular hardboiled writer that Markson sounds just like. I guess I am thinking of Hammett. As in Hammett, the jokes really are devastatingly clever, thrown off a dozen to a page with that delicious nonchalance, but/and there is a certain campiness to them that adds an element of self-parody which just adds to the bleak tone of the genre. Which makes me realize how much I do love Hammett's style, even though I was all about Chandler in the noir class I took in college. Markson's novels promise to be especially sweet because they take this style into another, very apropos milieu, 1950s beatnik/hipster Greenwich Village.