Days of Smoke

Ron Slate’s two poetry collections are The Incentive of the Maggot and The Great Wave. He reviews fiction, poetry, and other genres at “<a href="http://ronslate.com">On the Seawall</a>” (<a href="http://ronslate.com">ronslate.com</a>). Slate lives in Milton, Massachusetts, and serves as a board member of Mass Humanities.

Ron Slate

“The Fearful Verve of the Genre”: On Woody Haut’s “Days of Smoke”

"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?" — Dashiell Hammett

Noir

Ron Slate’s two poetry collections are The Incentive of the Maggot and The Great Wave. He reviews fiction, poetry, and other genres at “<a href="http://ronslate.com">On the Seawall</a>” (<a href="http://ronslate.com">ronslate.com</a>). Slate lives in Milton, Massachusetts, and serves as a board member of Mass Humanities.