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From the New York Times By JULIE BOSMAN Published: December 5, 2006 At the end of Norman Mailer’s new 467-page novel, “The Castle in the For...

Ed here: As I've always said, I sure do have interesting friends. Here's a part of a letter I got from novelist Bob Levinson today: ...

I was interested in James Reasoner's comments about outlining, published the other night on his fine blog Rough Edges,http://jamesreason...

I always thought that Arthur Conan Doyle was a pretty cool guy. When I was young I was all caught up in almost otherworldly portrait he gave...

Is it just me and my disconnected life here in Ioway or has a lot of the talk about changing agents sort of drifted away?. There was a time,...

Re my comments about John Ford the other night Bob Levinson noted: 1. Ford won more Oscars than any other director. None for a western, alth...

Stephen Mertz has written novels, under a variety of pseudonyms, that have been widely translated and sold millions of copies worldwide. Hi...

I was reading some of David Thomson's older essays tonight and came across his piece on John Ford, the one that got Thomson in so much t...

. Thanks to holiday progamming--i.e., HBO not wanting to put anything new on the tube while a good share of the nation was traveling--I mana...

Thanks to holiday progamming--i.e., HBO not wanting to put anything new on the tube while a good share of the nation was traveling--I manage...

http://www.deadlypleasures.com/ I've spent the last few nights reading through four recent issues of Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. ...

A few weeks ago I mentioned Bill Pronzini's observation that while most writers never become stars they can rise to the level of fine su...

FROM BLACK ROOMS — ON SALE NOW! The fourth novel in the exciting and inventive Violet Eyes series from author Stephen Woodworth has finally ...

Jon Breen on Casino Royale Last Friday on my local NPR station, I heard a couple of film critics, Henry Sheehan and Lael Lowenstein, ta...

For those of you who are interested Michaels Richards will be on the David Letterman show. I knew what I said about Richards-Gibson would be...

Showbiz... This day would be notable if only for the fact that Rupert Murdoch actually admitted that he did something wrong and canceled the...

From Richard S. Wheeler Even as mass-market westerns continue to disappear from the racks, new forms of the western story are rising. The re...

Since we're approaching gift giving season let me recommend the trade paper edition of David Thomson's Biographical History of Film,...

Ed, Little or nothing new for the aficionados, but maybe it will stir some curiosity among the unwashed. I don't understand the refere...

Here's a really fine history of Gold Medal and its impact on literary and film culture courtesy of http://www.2blowhards.com/. The write...