Ed Gorman's blog

I've been around enough pols in my life to know that most of them have their whipping boys and girls. Nothing new there. Budd Schulberg ...

In the New York Observer Spencer Morgan writes about not only Rip Torn's current problems but some of his dilemmas in the past. In case...

Writing Lullaby For The Nameless If I had developed a successful formula with the first two books in my series, it was thrown out the window...

Excellent article on Robert Ryan on Bright Lights Film Journal by Dan Callahn: "The obvious precursor of demonish seventies actors like...

Pro-File: Julie Hyzy www.juliehyzy.com 1. Tell us about your current novel (or project). I’d love to! My third White House Chef Mystery, Eg...

The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore When I was but a lad I read an interview with Graham Greene in which the master said that “Brian ...

For the past twenty-four hours I've been hearing about this big secret about Bill Crider. I assumed it had to do with a book Bill would ...

Coming February 23 J.T. Ellison: 1. Tell us about ...

About the time I reached the middle of Donald Westlake's novel Memory (to be published in March by Hard Case Crime) I started wondering ...

Ed here: Gawker ran an excerpt from Shocking True Story: by Henry E. Scott, the tale of the rise and fall of Confidential magazine, the ...

From Mary Kennedy: Can you sell a book in five words? Yes! My darling agent sold DEAD AIR to Penguin on the basis of this high conce...

Back in the early eighties--maybe 1981--Carol asked me if I'd look at the sample advertising of a young woman she'd met. I then had ...

1. Tell us about your current novel or project. I tend to work on several things simultaneously, and have just finished a pair of not-s...

Pro-File Jon Breen 1. Tell us about your current novel (or project). My most recent novel is Probable Claus (Five Star), a Christmas book th...

These days Bob Randisi is probably best known for his larky look at The Rat Pack, novels that aren't just fun to read but also map out s...

Parnell Hall is the author of the Puzzle Lady crossword puzzle mysteries, the Stanley Hastings private eye novels, and the Steve Winslow cou...

Coming in November from St. Martin's The Second Dev Conrad Suspense Novel We always hear about political dynasties in this country. The ...

David Handler has written six Connecticut shoreline mysteries featuring the mismatched crime-fighting duo of Mitch Berger and Des Mitry. His...

A friend of mine e mailed me a link to a somewhat absurd article that seemed to claim that there hasn't been a good private eye writer s...

Ed here: I got a funny e mail this morning asking if I ever planned to do gossip headlines again. Okey-dokey. These are from the Huffington ...