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NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS (An Excerpt from the Novel "More Money Than Moses")

NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS The Glorification of Stereotype in the writing of Moses Levi By Anna Held Privately Published in “Ophelia”,  Yale Society Quorum for Humanist Studies, Jan. 1972 The shortcomings of classic literature in terms of sexism and racism strikes closely to home in every age and genre, especially in the classic noir and neo noir genres. Typically, women are portrayed as beautiful villainesses, duped love interests, ditzy arm candy, vapid love interests, damsels in distress, or, as is so common in predominantly male oriented literature, disposable targets for brutalization, violence, rape, or murder. Critics have often pointed out that male authors do not treat female characters or characters of color as fully "human", or at least as "human" as their (usually) male protagonists, who tend themselves to be stereotypical, hyper masculine, fashionably "cool”, and generally unencumbered by serious emotional depth. It has been stated, by bett...

MOSES LEVI'S "CRIMINAL MIND" (An Excerpt from the Novel "More Money Than Moses")

  MOSES LEVI'S "CRIMINAL MIND" by Jack MacMillan, with Arnel   From The Quillist Literary Journal, June 1981   MOSES LEVI'S crowning achievement, a freshly penned novella entitled "CRIMINAL MINDS", published by The Goldman Publishing House and distributed to every major bookseller from New York City to Monowi has finally been released to a rabid fanbase spawned by the release of his newest Hollywood hit, “GUN TOTING HEROES”. To date, this daring tale is the highest selling book in the true* (ish) crime genre in American history, and yet, because of its unforgiving grit and impeccable attention to detail, has received little if any notoriety by the most widely circulated cultural publications and popular media. Similarly, in spite of its novelized account of an infamous public scandal, it has not been subjected to the normal accolades and criticism which is normal for such a culturally important effort such as this. One might wonder if the "Great...