Editor of The Strand: “like 2% of the time you hit the jackpot. I just feel so good. It’s worth it.”

“...the Washington Post echoed the critic Edmund Wilson’s famous verdict quoted above, saluting Cain’s “gruff, direct style that embodied the forcefulness of uncluttered colloquial speech and gave it the unobtrusive grace of good poetry”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/26/james-m-cain-lost-story-blackmail-strand-magazine-andrew-gulli #lit #JamesMCain #Poet #GritLit