Ed Gorman's blog

I've always been intrigued by how one writer reads a piece by another writer and does a riff on it that ends up entirely his own. Well, ...

From the bloggers signing themselves The Clones on IMDB: "TV actors, at least in the old days when they were placed in a separate class...

As I've noted grumpily many times, I'm not much for sequels or franchises. On and freaking on. Off hand the only sequel I can think ...

Ursula K. Le Guin quted on Galleycat today: "Books are social vectors, but publishers have been slow to see it. They barely even notice...

Five Strokes To Midnight is a handsomely made hardcover edited by Gary Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble with an introduction by Tim Lebbon. Hand...

As I've said here before, I think Brendan DuBois is one of the three or four best short story writers of my generation. He's also an...

I watched DOA this snowy afternoon and reaffirmed my opinion that it's one of the great B pulp stories of all time. "I'd like t...

Bad Day At Black Rock was on TCM this afternoon. One of my all-time favorite westerns. Bad Day demonstrates how durable the western form can...

Home January 23, 2008 I’m back from an esophageal dilation, and when I get past the dope and Vicodin, I’ll post again. Meanwhile, buttoning ...

I have two or three friends who take Amazon reviews very seriously. By that I mean they get really pissed off when some dude or dudette tra...

Every once in a while I read a novel that reminds me why I've spent a good share of my life reading fiction. Loren D. Estleman's Ame...

Probably everybody except Dick Cheney has sexual fantasies (he prefers killing). Remmber when movie critic David Thomson got lampooned for w...

There's a new issue of Paperback Parade featuring, among many other goodies, a history of Mike Shayne novels and a long interview with ...

Hey Guys, Got this from Ben Schutz's agent, Lynn Myers, just this morning. What a shock! I already passed it on to my newsletter edito...

We caught a morning showing of Juno. Carol liked it a lot. I liked it with reservations. For me the biggest problem was that it kept falling...

As many of you probably know, Ed Hoch died today. I don't know any of the details. I wasn't a close friend of his but we worked toge...

Let us now offer up a communal prayer for the sanity of Duane Swierczynski. And for our own sanity. Even though he pretends to be a contempo...

REMEMBER TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT FOR THE MARTIN SCORCESE VAL LEWTON DOCUMENTARY-- Here' a preview from Cinema-Retro: "(Tonight) Tur...

Last night my post included references to the sf magazine Planet Stories. If you want to take a look at some of those great gaudy covers, Bi...

In a recent issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine Robert Silverberg wrote a smart piece about growing up in the Fifties with ...