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(I am indebted to Book Glutton, who is responsible for much of the research in this post.) [Parker] motioned them in. Bett came in first, and her father followed, clutching the book protectively to his chest. It was a large, slender book with a red binding and a picture on the cover of [...] As I hope you’ve noticed, I haven’t been doing a lot at the site lately. I haven’t read any books recently so I have none to tell you about, and I’m behind on checking the latest Stark/Westlake/crime-fiction news which means I have no updates on that stuff at the moment either. I have a number of excuses [...] I discovered the great magazine Cashiers du Cinemart at Tower Records in Ann Arbor, and rediscovered it at a newstand/porn store in Austin about a year later. It quickly became my favorite magazine, because it obsessively covered many of my…um…obsessions while introducing me to new ones. Each issue was a wild ride through genre flicks, incredibly [...] When these come out in September, all of the rare Parker novels save Butcher’s Moon will be in print, with that one to follow next [...] The forewords for this batch are by Charles Ardai, editor of Hard Case Crime and an accomplished crime fiction writer in his [...] I’ll have the cover art for Slayground and Plunder Squad in the coming days. All three are scheduled for release September 1 (which likely means [...] The Man With the Getaway Face, in case you missed it earlier, is not a freestanding sequel to Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter. Rather, Darwyn has condensed Getaway Face into a prelude to his adaptation of The Outfit, where it will serve as the first chapter when The Outfit is released in October. It feels like a prelude–it [...] The Seminary Co-op Bookstore is hosting a 350-word flash-fiction contest to see who writes the best bookstore heist story starring Parker! Prizes are: All twelve of the University of Chicago Parker books printed to date. Details here. Sounds like fun! If they post the entries online, [...] I believe this is also the debut of the cover art for [...] |
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