/lit/ - Literature

>>19382706
If you like Manchette look into Barry Gifford. Any of the Sailor and Lula books, Pereira Durango or even Baby Catface. As for Hammet-style, Library of America has a few fantastic collections of crime writing which you can buy as a set. For international Juan Jose Saer writes interesting ones form time to time, like The Investigation.

Pulp becomes flesh, and lives. These stories have informed almost every great crime/mystery book today. This is where much of it began. The atmosphere that these written stories on paper created, read by holding a book and turning pages, getting ink on your fingertips and the damp, musty smell of pages in your nostrils.