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“Strange” by Charles Willeford

“The unlikely father of Miami crime fiction.” Atlantic Monthly

The question wasn’t what is the best place to pick up women in Miami. It wasn’t what was the easiest place either. The big question the three friends discussed was what was the most difficult place to pick up women in 1970’s Miami. When the expert of the group, Hank, takes on the challenge his friends propose, things quickly go from bad to worse in this darkly humorous novella by Charles Willeford, dubbed “the Pope of Psychopulp” by The Village Voice.

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Discussing Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino has said that the film “is not noir. I don’t do neo-noir. I see Pulp Fiction as closer to modern-day crime fiction, a little closer to Charles Willeford.”