By Trent Kumar Sivasubramanian at Deconstructing Comics pans Darwyn Cooke's The Hunter. Parker isn't for everybody! http://t.co/zccJyarQ # Washington & Lincoln deserve better than having birthdays combined as Presidents' Day. Here's a reading list anyway: http://t.co/5CIdiw4K # MysteryPeople has an interview with Charles Ardai about The Comedy is Finished. http://t.co/blmqnYsi # In the Mouth of Dorkness–Lee […]
By Nick Jones
Blatant plug time, folks. Following Monday’s review of George Pelecanos’s 2011 novel The Cut, I’ve been pressing on with the Pelecanos posts over on Existential Ennui. You can find a review of his latest novel, the superfly ’70s blaxploitation crime fiction corker What It Was, here:
What It Was review
And, should […]
By Trent
I’m afraid I’ve let you down, here. I was planning on having The Comedy is Finished read and reviewed in time for today’s release and had set aside Thursday through Sunday for just that. Unfortunately, I had to lend a friend a hand Thursday night and due to some technology problems early last week, […]
By Nick Jones
(NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui.)
I’ve a particular reason for cross-posting this review on The Violent World of Parker, as well as on Existential Ennui. I mean, George Pelecanos being ostensibly a crime novelist, and Donald E. Westlake/Richard Stark being an acknowledged influence on Pelecanos, obviously […]
By Trent
We lovers of noir don’t get a whole lot of bones thrown our way at the theater these days, so when Drive came out last fall to quite good reviews, I was excited. Unfortunately, its release coincided with the beginning of football season and the time of year in which I notoriously don’t do […]
By Trent
I like screwing around with new gadgets for the website. Most of those gadgets aren’t worth a damn, which is why this site has very few of them. But I like it when a good one comes around.
I’ve been messing with a new feature, which I’ve named the Violent World of Parker Gazette, […]
By Trent From the Albany Times Union, 10/21/95–Donald Westlake remembers his Albany haunts: http://t.co/7QcJJFwj # An excerpt from Donald Westlake's lost novel The Comedy is Finished, which will be released on 2/21: http://t.co/1VkpALf3 # Jesse Willis at SFFaudio–The Comedy is Finished available on audiobook, plus an interview with Charles Ardai: http://t.co/9AbIXCkU # A 1990 audio interview […]
By Nick Jones
(NB: This post also appears on Existential Ennui.)
As you’ll no doubt already be aware if you’ve read Violent World of Parker supremo Trent’s earlier post, today is Donald E. Westlake Day. Instigated by Patti Abbott to mark the imminent publication by Hard Case Crime/Titan Books of the “lost” Westlake novel The […]
By Trent
Note: This is my contribution to Donald Westlake Day, hosted by Patti Abbott. Her post with the full roundup of DEW Day links is here (and it will likely be updated throughout the day, so do check back). Many thanks to all participants and to Patti for putting this together.
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By Nick Jones
Just over a year ago on Existentiul Ennui I posted a series of reviews of Elmore Leonard‘s crime fiction stories featuring US Marshal Raylan Givens—the novels Pronto (1993) and Riding the Rap (1995) and the short story “Fire in the Hole” (2002), plus an introductory piece—comparing them to the TV show they […]
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