Ain't 1990 unless he's got a cellist in the band.

Ain't 1990 unless he's got a cellist in the band.

McTeague in my top 10. Norris' Octopus also worth reading for best barn dance scene ever. I don't know if true but I always thought many of the later noir writers (Goodis, Thompson, Willeford, Brewer) must have been influenced by the turn of the century naturalists like Norris and Dreiser.