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We watched the two part "Blind Beggar" Wake The Dead episodes tonight and I found myself really caught up in it. Unlike the splash...

A very long, extremely well-done oiece on the fate of the last of the dugest sized fiction magazines: Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in ...

Allan Guthrie was kind enough to tell me about this link to the website of director Tim McCann. Hit film clips at the top and you'll see...

Yeah, Joe the P being a humble dude, would have us believe that "everyone" came at him to write a book. Sorry Mr. Knopf, take a hi...

Ed here: I got an early copy of Small Crimes and I've been pushing it hard ever since. Apparently I'm not alone in seeing it as a ma...

I don't remember who said "Protect me from my friends" but that is advice that Barney, the protagonist in David Schow's ex...

Hard to know if a book was a fairly easy go for the writer or if it drove him to drugs and e-porn. I hope The Handle by Richard Stark was a ...

I came by my love of priate stories dishonestly, not by Robert Louis Stevenson or Rafael Sabatini. I was eight years old when my cousin Bobb...

Very interesting article in SFGate this morning on Chrichton as genre science fiction writer : Remembering Michael Crichton Michael Berry Ch...

Check Turner Classic for a series of hour long interviews that critic Elvis Mitchell is doing with actors. I caught the first one last night...

Shamus Winner David Fulmer has an excellent long review of Bill Gault's The Bloody Bokhara on The Rap Sheet tonight. One paragraph is pa...

James Reasoner is a fine writer and a fine guy. The Tainted Archive interviewed him the other day following James' annoucement that h...

Hard to imagine a more staggering or influential career in popular fiction than that of Michael Chrichton. Jurassic Park alone made him immo...

Congratulations to my buddy Tom Piccirilli for winning a slot on Amazon’s Ten Best Crime and Suspense Novels of 2008 The Cold Spot by Tom ...

Ed here--mediabistro offered a Studs Terkel quote this morning that demonstrates how true and brave and irreplacable the man was. In 1997, ...

According to ABC, more than 200 made-for-TV mystery movies were telecast during the 1973-1974 season alone. To save on production costs, th...

Yes, I had an epiphany last night. Honest. I was re-reading one of my favorite Fredric Brown novels, The Deep End, and I realized suddenly w...

I was never much of a Jean-Claude Van Damme fan. Action movies tend to put me to sleep and the only one I saw Van Damme in didn't do muc...

If Bill Crider and James Reasoner and I were to sit down and discuss sidekicks we'd likely bring up the great Gabby Hayes and work our w...

From Fred Blosser Ed, I see that Criterion has just released Jean-Pierre Melville's LE DOULOS (1963) on DVD. My capsule review from MY...