Jim Thompson. Dead 14 years next month. The Academy Awards...

Jim Thompson. Dead 14 years next month. The Academy Awards are upon us, and as I write this, I do not know what's been nominated for what. But I have a hunch this is the year of Thompson. I believe somebody famous will stand there to thank God and Swifty Lazar, if you can tell the difference, and then with a stifled sob, add a special thanks to Jim Thompson. And people will stand and cheer his name. I only hope Alberta is right, and that Jimmy hears the applause. But I doubt it. Jim Thompson stories seldom have happy endings.

Arnold Hano

From "In Retrospect: Jim Thompson Stories Don't Have Happy Endings," in Orange Coast Magazine (March 1991), p. 167

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