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the purest of treats (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word...
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the purest of treats (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
He never graduated high school. He laid brick and cinder blocks for a living. Sometimes he pointed out houses and other buildings he had worked on. He used to tell me, "I worked hard, very hard." He started reading seriously as a young boy. He knew a lot about history and geography. When I knew him he read mainly fiction. He liked most kinds of popular novels but especially ones that were...
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Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Reading Woman, August Macke (1887-1914) Daily Thoughts 10/30/2009 I read some more of Sandman Slim during lunch. It is very entertaining. I am almost finished reading it. It might be a bit too dark for some people. It is also a bit profane so some people may not like it. The story is very good though and the writing is excellent for the type of story it tells. This morning, I did a display of mysteries...
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Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Uber-agent Darley Anderson was profiled in The Bookseller last week, with this snippet appearing near the end of the piece: What authors need For fiction, he wants his agency to look for character first and plot second among the over 1,300 submissions it gets monthly. “Good writing is the last thing, and we can work with authors on that.” The first thing to say about that is Darley Anderson’s...
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SocketSite™ (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A single-family Edwardian "tucked away on quiet street between Nob Hill and Downtown neighborhoods" (we'll let you solve that one), 33 Dashiell Hammett sold for $1,275,000 in January of 2007. And if our plugged-in tipster is correct, it "looks...
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This book is clearly a labor of love. Its editor, Vince Emery, is also the publisher, and he obviously took great pains to be sure the book was carefully designed and constructed. It contains twenty-one stories—though in a handful of cases calling them stories rather than vignettes is stretching the point—not all of which are mystery/crime [...]
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3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
1) The Manual of Detection has drawn a lot of comparisons to various authors: from Friedrich Dürrenmatt to Dashiell Hammett, via Kafka and Paul Auster, taking in Italo Calvino. Which, if any, of these authors were an influence? All these authors to some extent, though Italo Calvino most substantially. While in college I studied Calvino with [...]
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Ivebeenreadinglately (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Since first discovering the giant Modern Library anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural last fall, I've admired it as much for its timing as for its quality: it was published in early 1944, when the war, though going far better than it had been a few years before, was still a long way from being over. I love picturing editors Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise drawing up a list of stories,...
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badgerblog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Italian 70s slashers, arid arthouse, a very funny movie about zombies, and a revenge action drama. With upcoming films trailer commentaries and a special "rudest movie patron of the month" report. ############## Pieces _Pieces_, Colony Theatre, part of the Cinema Overdrive grindhouse-like series. 1970s Italian slasher flick. 1970s America in a time capsule filtered through an Italian lens,...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
The vintage Cadillac that ferried guests to tonight’s partyThe ducat (as Dashiell Hammett might say) to the coolest party at Bouchercon on Friday night was hard to come by: you had to be affiliated in some manner with the late, great mystery-fiction podcast, Behind the Black Mask, which was produced by Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards.As those two men remarked in their “Long Goodbye”...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
ST. LOUIS -- Prolific mystery writer Stuart Kaminsky, whose 70 books included one that the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of 1989, has died at a hospital here. He was 75. Kaminsky had suffered from hepatitis C and moved to St. Louis earlier this year awaiting a liver transplant. But a stroke shortly after the move made him ineligible for the transplant, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
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Dante and the Lobster (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
By the mid 1930s, Mae West drew the highest salary of any woman in the U.S. from a string of Hollywood hits. Lillian Schlissel explains in her introduction that before West rose to fame in tinseltown, she wrote a dozen plays for the New York theatre district. West's larger-than-life bawdy persona grew out of the vaudeville circuit and then the stage through her productions featuring themes such as...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
ARCTIC CHILL By Arnaldur Indridason Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder and Victoria Cribb Minotaur. 344 pp. $24.99 The modern American crime novel was launched in 1930 when Dashiell Hammett introduced the private investigator Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon." Other notable private ...
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Simon Dyda (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
I've been on Blogger since February 2005, but this is the first time I've actually looked (via my profile ) to see how many other Blogger bloggers have the same interests and preferences as I have. Here are the results: Interests: Apophenia 16 Favourite films: Pulp Fiction : 11,800,000 Blade Runner : 8,050,000 The Good The Bad and The Ugly : 55,200 Chinatown : 35,400 The Third Man : 28,300 Dead Man...
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