Ed Gorman's blog

Greetings everybody. A lot to share, announce, and update in re: goings-on at Haffner Press (www.haffnerpress.com), so getting to it: 1) TH...

**************************** Ed here: I was looking through a 1960s book about the Warner Brothers TV factory of the Fifties and early Sixti...

There's a long tradition in American literature of writers using their mental and spiritual breakdowns as material for their work. Certa...

From Galleycat: AMAZON Kindle Books Outsell Paperback Books on Amazon By Jason Boog on January 27, 2011 4:27 PM Amazon.com, Inc. announced i...

**************************** I've been reading Mike Resnick since the Eighties. He's written just about every conceivable kind of sc...

**************************** Question: What could be worse than taking a trip with Adrian Monk? Answer: Taking a trip with Adrian Monk and h...

**************************** I'm A Fool To Kill You by Robert J. Randisi I’M A FOOL TO KILL YOU By Robert J. Randisi I’m a frust...

****************** Careers: Erle Stanley Gardner (from 2006) I've never been able to figure out why Raymond Chandler felt he owed such a...

****************** Cady channels his inner beatnik. Dean Brierly reviews for both Cinema Retro and other magazines and has two of his o...

**************************** Ed here: I watched "The Seven Year Itch" the other night and that made me remember George Axelrod. An...

THE INNOCENT MRS. DUFF One of the more familiar knocks on mystery fiction is that it rarely treats death seriously. That too often murder is...

"Nobody does it better." Elmore Leonard The Left-Handed Dollar is Loren Estleman's twentieth Amos Walker novel--and the thirti...

(Ed here: A little late with this one. Sorry, Greg.) Hello Everyone, We’re just a week or so away from shipping Peter Rabe’s wonderful pair...

I've been getting progressively sicker this week so haven't been doing much. When my temp hit 102 I went to the doc. She told me tha...

From Vince Emery Productions: Joe Gores is one of the world's best-regarded mystery writers. He is a three-time winner of the Edgar Awar...

**************************** Ed here: Last night Cullen Gallagher at Pulp Serenade was kind enough to review my first novel, Rough Cut, whic...

**************************** I'm just about finished with my third or fourth reading of Max Collin's SPREE. This is not only one of ...

Robert Duvall: Don't Mourn the Good Old Days of Hollywood Published: January 07, 2011 @ 12:40 pm FROM THE WRAP By Brent Lang They may n...

Let’s see. Sharp Practice by John Farris is a slasher novel. And it’s also a police procedural of a very British kind (though written by...

**************************** This is from Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times The first fruit of James Frey's fiction factory January 3, ...