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...
Crime Always Pays (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... forms, whether that’s the prose poetry of Lawrence Durrell or the hardboiled staccato of James M Cain, the brutalised rhythms of James Ellroy’s recent work, the refined elegance of John Banville, or the heightened formality of Mary Renault. ‘Good writing’, for me, is writing that is persuasively authentic to the story it is telling. To paraphrase @allanguthrie’s...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
... ever be as zippy as the Yanks? 2) No postman puts in an appearance, or even gets a reference, in James M Cain's blinding crime novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. But in the 1946 film version, drifter Frank gives an explanation based on Roy Hoopes's biography of Cain – it's about avoidance (of bad news, of justice). I couldn't find that bit, but here's the moment Frank...
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,...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... for what was to come. It's all there -- the worship of the hard-boiled detective fiction of James M. Cain, the presence of (who'd marry Joel in 1984). And that opening line, spoken by M. Emmet Walsh, neatly sums up their latest movie.'Raising ' (1987) "And it seemed real. And it seemed like, well ... our home ... If not Arizona, then a land not too far away, where all parents are...
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...
