By Nick Jones
Nearly seven months ago now, I created a new permanent page over on Existential Ennui (my personal books blog, as if you didn’t know), dedicated to the finest examples of British dust jacket design—or rather, my idea of the finest examples, taken from my own collection of books, and including a fair […]
By Trent
Hollywood gets on kicks all the time. In 1997, we had the Year of the Volcano (Volcano, Dante’s Peak), followed in 1998 by the Year of the Meteor (Armageddon, Deep Impact), which was also the Year of the Animated Insect (A Bug’s Life, Antz) on the Chinese movie calendar.
It looks like 2013 will […]
By Trent
Unlike a chunk of the books in the previous posts in this series, the authorship of the books written by Donald Westlake and published by Monarch Books were never much in question. The “E” in Donald E. Westlake stands for “Edwin,” so it didn’t take a master sleuth to figure out Donald Edwin Westlake. […]
By Nick Jones
Since Trent’s currently in the process of confirming, cataloging, and showcasing every single sleaze paperback Donald E. Westlake ever wrote (under various pseudonyms), I thought I’d take the opportunity to draw the attention of British VWoP readers (and any vacationing Americans) to a forthcoming event where there’s guaranteed to be a fine […]
By Trent
The first post in this series included the series introduction and covered the first five sleaze novels that Donald Westlake wrote for Midwood Books. This post will cover the second and final five.
Here is some backstory on Midwood from Lynn Munroe:
Harry Shorten came from the Midwood section of Brooklyn NY. […]
By Trent Ex-LA Times Magazine folks trying to start a noir mag for tablets. LATM's crime issues were superb. Hope this happens: http://t.co/LETmuSlp # The Comics Reporter reviews Darwyn Cooke's adaptation of The Score: http://t.co/0Ds3LZ5t # Charles Ardai interviewed about the lost James M. Cain novel, The Cocktail Waitress: http://t.co/YGn3ZkjG # Michael Silverblatt interviews Donald Westlake […]
By Trent
Les Alexander was Donald Westlake’s friend for 35 years and is a producer on the Parker film. He sent this e-mail to reader Dave, who posted it to the comments. Dave and I both thought it was worth a post of its it own.
Les has been kind enough to engage us hardcore Parker […]
By Trent
Here is the cover for the University of Chicago Press’ upcoming reprint of Flashfire to coincide with the film based on it. I like that they kept it simple, and I’m thrilled that they put the original title on the cover.
I think I wrote in a previous post or comment that this would […]
By Trent
Well, folks, here it is. A lot of you are going to be disappointed.
Not because the film looks bad. It looks like a fun action flick. But they couldn’t resist softening up the character a little bit. So yes, that awful bit about “don’t steal from people who can’t afford it,” that I […]
By Trent
After promising a hiatus, I’m coming back with a bonanza. Here begins a several-part series. Just the way things work sometimes.
I’ve been sitting on a goldmine of information about Donald Westlake’s early sleaze novels, lots of it put together by paperback historian Lynn Munroe, for a couple of years now. I had planned […]
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