The James M. Cain Cookbook: Guide to Home Singing, Physical Fitness and Animals (Especially Cats)
The Writing Life II (Free subscription) | yesterday
Best first line of a novel: "They threw me off the hay truck about noon." The Postman Always Rings Twice , James M. Cain Best last line of a short story: "Art doesn't save anyone from anything" (from memory). "The Moon In Its Flight," Gilbert Sorrentino Best curtain lines from one of my plays: "What the people expect, they get. What they get, they deserve....
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Roy Hoopes, 87, a longtime Washington journalist who wrote an acclaimed biography of crime novelist James M. Cain and more than 30 other books, died of pneumonia Tuesday at AAA Atrium Classic Assisted Living in Silver Spring, Md.
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... if only she can find somebody to help her . . . Yep, you’ve read it before, starting with James M. Cain and going right on through the Fifties in the work of dozens of paperbackers like Charles Williams, Day Keene, Gil Brewer, and Orrie Hitt. The femme fatale, the likable but not-too-bright hero, the scheme that will make them both rich if only nothing goes wrong . . . but it...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It just wouldn’t seem like Friday anymore without “forgotten books” recommendations popping up all over the Web. Beyond Kelli Stanley’s tribute on this page to Nightmare Alley , by William Lindsay Gresham, today’s crime-fiction suggestions include: The Venetian Affair , by Helen MacInnes; Killers at Large , edited by Alfred Hitchcock; Sinful Woman , by James M....
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...
