- Release date of Jason Statham's Parker film pushed back to 1/25/13.
http://t.co/jS1A2KfM # - Bill Crider on Donald Westlake's book about the sleaze novel biz, Adios, Schehrazade: http://t.co/wIDOB4ng #
- Patrick at At the Scene of the Crime on The Man with the Getaway Face: http://t.co/lxv0Dfy9 #
- Loren Eaton of I Saw Lightning Fall debuts a Parker pastiche short story, "Empty Hours": http://t.co/beNeVpV2 #
- John Cox at The Book Bond–Requiem for a novelization: http://t.co/9bXi2CdX #
- Rod Lott at the Oklahoma Gazette reviews two Jim Brown films, The Slams and The Split (based on The Seventh): http://t.co/tC9hzdn8 #
- Kent Holloway has a great interview with Warren Murphy on the Destroyer and more: http://t.co/KM50ebsp #
- Brian Truitt at USA Today–Old-time radio and comics heroes burst back onto the scene: http://t.co/hqUA7fCx #
- Sasha Frere-Jones writing about Twitter mentions fake Richard Stark account but not my real Richard Stark news account! http://t.co/u5UaoNdK #
- We get results (and they look great!): http://t.co/H73wpaZ8 Also the U of C Grofield reprints are shipping: http://t.co/CtpwRorR #
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Let me just put Loren Eaton on my list of “Writers I don’t particularly need to ever become acquainted with.”
Parker treats women pretty much exactly the same way he treats men–and yes, that’s shocking, and it’s supposed to be, but let’s remember please that the word ‘gentleman’ stems from a past where men of high rank felt free to rape the daughters of the peasantry at will–rape being a crime Parker never even imagines committing, which surely sets him apart from your average man.
Morality in hardboiled crime fiction is pretty much synonymous with hypocrisy. As to ‘pathologically self-centered’, that describes 99% of aspiring writers with their own blogs to a ‘T’.
Might as well let it slide that he thinks Westlake only wrote comic novels under his own name, since correcting this guy’s misconceptions would clearly be the work of a lifetime. ;)