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Parker Mega Score finale: Richard Stark in British Thriller Book Cover Design of the 1970s and 1980s
NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui. If you missed the announcement on Existential Ennui on Friday, some (relatively) exciting news: I’ve established a brand new Existential Ennui permanent page: British Thriller Book Cover Design of the 1970s and 1980s A companion page to Beautiful British Book Jacket […] I don’t have much to add to this press release by IDW Publishing, except for awesome! Darwyn Cooke To Illustrate Parker Prose Novels At IDW Sunday, Oct 13th, 2013 Donald E. Westlake’s Classic Stories Accompanied By Gorgeous Paintings By Cooke San Diego, CA (October 13, 2013) – IDW Publishing announced this morning its plan […]
When we interviewed Darwyn Cooke for his release of The Score, he told us that his next Parker adapation would be The Handle. I thought it was a good pick, and that was only partially fueled by my desire to see him stretch out the series as long as possible. (He’s stated that […] Don’t worry, we’re still here, sort of. As regular readers know, co-blogger Nick and I have both recently had some happy but life-changing events. This has resulted in a lack of posting and work on the site, because these events have resulted in circumstances where free time is just a bit less than it used […] Hey, folks! This is something I’m really excited to present. The French Série noire translations of American crime fiction novels, along with American film noir, were hugely influential on French New Wave directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Melville. (The shot above this post is from (sort-of) Parker adaptation Made in U.S.A. directed […] As I try to get back into the groove of regular reading, writing, and posting following one of the most eventful six months or so of my life, I’m grateful for diversions like this, from reader Michael C, that give me both a chuckle and an easy post: I thought that you […]
NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui. Continuing the rolling—if intermittent—showcase of Peter Rabe books I’ve bought of late (well, over the last year or so, anyway)—with, of course, additional commentary on each by perhaps Rabe’s greatest admirer, Donald E. Westlake, taken from Westlake’s 1989 essay on Rabe—we […]
NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui. Right then. Let’s get stuck into that stack of Peter Rabe crime fiction paperbacks, and find out what Donald E. Westlake—upon whom Rabe was a big influence—made of each of them in his critical essay “Peter Rabe” in Murder off the […] Bookmark this one: “The Many Lives of Donald Westlake: On the man who created Parker and the quest for the perfect character,” by Michael Weinreb. I was interviewed for the piece, but that’s not why I’m giving it its own post. (I’m barely quoted, which is fine by me as I’m not a big […]
Update: My opinion isn’t the only one. I’m adding links to thoughts from fellow Parker fans (often quite different from mine) at the bottom of the post. Parker is terrible. Almost everything about it is awful. It opens well enough, with a heist set at the Ohio State Fair, which […] |
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