Influences: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson (1906-1977)  was criminally underappreciated during his lifetime.  Writing during on of the heights of the stark, crime story, he is mysteriously overshadowed by far inferior writers.  It wasn’t until the late eighties’ re-prints that reputation and stature grew.

He was the mastermind of doubt, filling his stories with unreliable narrators, the surreal, hallucinogenic thoughts of dying (or dead) narrators, and oddly structured layers to his plots.  He is often cited as the “rawes...