Emily Temple
holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in fiction from the
University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns fellow and the
recipient of a Henfield Prize. Temple's first novel is The Lightness.
At Lit Hub she tagged fifty great classic novels under 200 pages. One title on the list:
James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1933) : 112 pagesRead about another entry on the list.
A 20th century classic, and still one of the best, most important, and most interesting crime novels in the canon. Fun fact: Cain had originally wanted to call it Bar-B-Q.
The Postman Always Rings Twice is among Douglas Kennedy's ten favorite "novels on the agonies and ecstasies of the extramarital adventure," Vincent Zandri's top ten doomed and deadly romances in noir fiction, and Benjamin Black/John Banville's five top works of noir.
--Marshal Zeringue
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