I know that Stephen King is somewhat of a jackass, these days; but his 1981 work DANSE MACABRE is an extremely useful look at the contemporary horror genre, and we are overdue for somebody to write something similar for our own time period*. It’s the old problem of separating the art from the artist. I mean, even I can be a slight jackass, sometimes.
No, really.
Moe Lane
*No, not me. I do not come even close to having The Knowledge necessary for such an endeavor. Ken Hite? This is your moment.
Who better to write a how-to book, than a complete tool?
(It is a good and useful book.)
40 years old is far past contemporary, Moe.
Cars are classic at 30 and music is oldies at 20.
I believe he meant then-contemporary. Indeed, he was talking about how we needed a new now-contemporary version of the same thing.