The James M. Cain Cookbook: Guide to Home Singing, Physical Fitness and Animals (Especially Cats)
Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Have you visited our new Los Angeles Noir section? Check it out.....if ya got the guts. It's overflowing with gangsters, gun molls, rogue cops, and con men. We've got all your favorite writers: Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, James M Cain, Ross MacDonald...writing about the sun bleached streets of Los Angeles and the glittering denizens within. Drop in. Pick something up....if ya got the guts.
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
This week, filmbuffy fishes around in her satchel to find and deliver the best film clips relating to posties That Postman Pat is to be the subject of a new 3D movie is both a small shock (who next? SuperTed') and an inevitability. The movies love postmen almost as much as toddlers do. My home-knitted Pat jersey was the envy of every child in class. My friend Simon's Pat birthday cake was a thing...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
A while back, Michael Hemmingson discovered that “Fred Martin” is a previously unknown pseudonym for Orrie Hitt. HIRED LOVER is one of only two novels published under the Martin name, and after reading Michael’s review of it, I had to hunt up a copy and read it for myself. I’m glad I did. This is one of Hitt’s James M. Cain-influenced novels, with the narrator, tough guy...
Some books what I have read (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Title: The Postman Always Rings Twice Author: James M Cain Number of pages: 117 Started: 28 September 2009 Finished: 30 September 2009 Opening words: They threw me off the hay truck about noon. I had swung on the night before, down at the border, and as soon as I got up there under the canvas, I went to sleep. I needed plenty of that, after three weeks in Tia Juana, and I was still getting it when...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
warm up for the next day's debut bus adventure Host: Esotouric bus adventures Type: Party - Cocktail Party Network: Global Price: Free Date: Friday, September 18, 2009 Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Morton's The Steakhouse Street: 735 S Figueroa St. City/Town: Los Angeles, CA Phone: (323) 223-2767 Email: tours@esotouric.com Join Esotouric and "L.A. Noir" author John Buntin for an intimate...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
(The opening post in this series can be found here.)I first came to Dave Zeltserman’s self-styled “dark crime fiction” through Small Crimes, his 2008 breakthrough novel. I initially thought that the “dark” was a reference to the kind of noir crime fiction associated with Jim Thompson, James M. Cain, and many others. But Zeltserman has a penchant for going beyond conventional...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
My friend Pete Brandvold, who has also become an Orrie Hitt fan, recommended this one to me, and I’m glad he did because, as usual, it’s a fine yarn. The protagonist is Butch Hagen, a former carnival worker and truck driver who really prefers working on farms. He’s been shacking up in a small town with another former carny, the beautiful stripper Lucy Ellis, when he finds work on...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
A taut, German-made thriller, "Jerichow" adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal. Smartly done by Christian Petzold, this James M. Cain-style noir serves up a classic triangle: an alluring, unhappy wife (Nina Hoss), a piggish husband (Hilmi Sozer), and the handsome loner (Benno Furmann) who can't help himself - and does.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
A taut, German-made thriller, "Jerichow" adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal. Smartly done by Christian Petzold, this James M. Cain-style noir serves up a classic triangle: an alluring, unhappy wife (Nina Hoss), a piggish husband (Hilmi Sozer), and the handsome loner (Benno Furmann) who can't help himself - and does.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Sam Mendes' Away We Go (54 screens) makes for a great trailer, consisting of all the very funny, snarky stuff written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida . The actual movie has some very funny moments as well, and some terrific individual scenes, but it doesn't add up to a reasonable whole, mainly because the ever-shifting tones never quite mesh. Nevertheless, it seems to be performing well in its arthouse...
Laci the Dog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood." The above quote comes from a prominent journalist and social critic whose work (in short snippets and excerpts) I've enjoyed reading over the years. This person actually was the most influential literary and social critic of his time (the Roaring '20s was his heyday) and he made household names of...
US Official Tabloid Gossip (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Let's just hope, for Kate Winslet 's sake, that ghosts don't exist. The newly crowned Academy Award champ ("The Reader") is said to be taking on the Oscar-winning role in "Mildred Pierce" (1945), and we can only imagine what Mildred Fierce — er , Joan Crawford — might think of that. Variety reports Todd Haynes ("I'm Not There") is adapting James M. Cain's...
US Official Tabloid Gossip (Free subscription) | 08/16/2009
Haven't done a movie-news roundup in a little while, so here's one for the weekend: --The great Kate Winslet, who's been taking her time announcing a post-"Revolutionary Road" project, is now attached to a miniseries version of "Mildred Pierce," based on the James M. Cain novel of a long-suffering mother (previously brought to the screen as a Joan Crawford vehicle). Todd Haynes...
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | 08/15/2009
Kate Winslet is following in the footsteps of Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange by taking her talents to the small screen. The Oscar winning actress is set to play the lead role in a TV mini-series remake of the movie Mildred Pierce , originally played by Hollywood legend J oan Crawford . Crawford won an Academy Award for her her role in the 1945 adaption of the famous James M. Cain novel.
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