Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Jackie Collins picks her five guilty literary pleasures . I'd add these, but they are guilt-free: City Primeval by Elmore Leonard Ice by Ed McBain Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Alone in my house in the year 2008, I slipped a DVD into the player and looked back through time. I was watching the original version of 3:10 to Yuma. I was seeing how men and women and children were 50 years ago. The script is from an Elmore Leonard short story, and the movie was [...]
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
This weekend's featured contributor to Writers Read: Patrick Lennon, author of the Corn Dolls (2006) and Steel Witches (2008). One book he mentions:Up In Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard. The great feeling - as always with him - is of characters shooting around the book like pinballs, one of them a Detroit butcher who thinks he's Heinrich Himmler's twin. A real pleasure. I've always been
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
There’s good writing, there’s terrific writing, and then there’s writing that doesn’t read like writing. As with Elmore Leonard, John McFetridge’s writing reads as if you’re eavesdropping on the half-formed thoughts and conversations of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. True communication is not about breaking down barriers; it sneaks under the wire, slips in the back door, filters in through...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Is Peter Leonard's debut "Quiver" in the same league as the work by his famous father, veteran author Elmore Leonard?
halls of macadamia (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
...an Elmore Leonard crime thriller... Two men appeared in court in Windsor Thursday on attempted murder charges in connection with the weekend shooting of Lucky Suites. Gytteau Nerestant, 29, and Yvenel Billy, 23, both of Toronto, were arraigned Thursday. It's just another day in Dalton McSlippery's "no such thing as a bad boy" Ontario. *
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
“There was a time long, long ago in a galaxy not too far from here when we called the Friday Round-Up ‘Funky Friday’s Freaky-Deak’, the ‘freaky-deak’ bit being our little homage to El Maestro, Elmore Leonard. Unfortunately, we’ve subsequently discovered – naïve souls that we are – that ‘freaky-deak’ has a particular connotation in the world of interweb pornography (not pictured, right), and that a...
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Elmore Leonard must have laughed all the way to the bank. His advice to would-be authors, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing , is an attractive publication but the text would make a short powerpoint presentation. He must have gotten the idea from David Letterman that he can make ten quirky statements and entertain his fans. It is entertaining, but it could be reproduced on a couple of postcards....
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
When people ask me, “Which famous writers or books have influenced you'” I tend to come out with the usual suspects. Raymond Chandler, James Lee Burke, Elmore Leonard. Add to those Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (1992) by Danish writer Peter Høeg--the first half of possibly the best thriller ever written. Perhaps surprisingly for a Brit, I don’t cite either Arthur Conan Doyle (whose Sherlock
Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Alex March - 1969 George Armitage - 2004 both Warner Brothers Region 1 DVD Elmore Leonard's novel, The Big Bounce, was his first foray into the contemporary crime fiction that Leonard is primarily known for now. It would be...
Crime Scene Scotland Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Charlie Stella's Sixth Novel Mafiya is the latest from one of Crime Scotland's favourite writers. We've described him as "like Elmore Leonard writing an episode of the Sopranos" and with this novel, he takes a decidedly dark twist in his representation of New York's underworld. Check it out:
Isak (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Elmore Leonard gets a hefty profile in The Washington Post. When I began reading it, I at first thought the opening paragraphs were from a Leonard story; but no. The story is Leonard. Except the call him 'Dutch.' Dutch lives...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
At 82, acclaimed writer Elmore Leonard is still turning out best-selling crime fiction. In fact, the metro Detroiter begins a book tour this month.
GingaTao! (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
“I try to leave out the parts people skip.” Elmore Leonard Now don't read it again and write it in your own words. Haha, waffle on, I say. The sky, the sky's in love with you, she left me, left me flat and without implicit rhythm, where are you Maryjane, If you have a [...]
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
There’s a lively discussion going on over at Crimespace, having to do with the first adult crime novels people read. Mickey Spillane, Agatha Christie, Lawrence Sanders, and Elmore Leonard all seem to have been used as entry drugs into the genre. As I’ve explained before, I started out reading Ross Macdonald and then went on to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Robert B. Parker. They led me,
