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“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.”

Here is Charles Willeford’s slyly humorous meditation on fishing, relationships and machismo. 

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“Nobody writes a better crime novel,” Elmore Leonard said of Willeford.

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.”

Fellow writer James Lee Burke has acknowledged a “great debt” to Willeford: “If someone wanted advice about writing, about how to pull it off, make it work, punch it up…Charles could tell you how to do it.”

Jonathan Yardley of The Washington Post called him “one of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers of what the literary establishment insists on pigeonholing as ‘genre’ fiction.”