Hello, folks!
The Twitter Digest plugin I had been using for this weekly roundup broke back in January. I have spent hours trying to get it going again and trying to find an alternative, but I couldn’t and I didn’t. This is a bummer, because it was easy content and I know people enjoyed the threads.
This will teach me about switching to the latest version of WordPress just because WordPress insists that I should.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the developer of Twitter Digest eventually releases a new version or that someone develops an alternative. In the meantime, I will try to do this manually.
Here is some stuff that would have appeared in the news roundup had the feature been working for the past six months.
- Ben at Dead End Follies reviews The Score. His reviews of the previous Parker books are also worth checking out. http://www.deadendfollies.com/2014/05/book-review-richard-stark-score-1964.html …
- Praise for the Coronet bullet-hole editions of the Parker novels from Kirk Lake at Crimeculture: http://www.crimeculture.com/?page_id=4927
- A brief review of Levi Stahl’s The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany from Publisher’s Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-226-12181-9 …
- Ernest Tidyman’s Shaft returns to print from Dynamite Entertainment: http://westfieldcomics.com/blog/press-release/dynamite-announces-shaft-publishing-deal/ …
- Michael Weinreb at Grantland on Elmore Leonard–The Dickens of Detroit: http://grantland.com/features/elmore-leonard-detroit-crime-novelist-dickens/ …
- CBS News–Library of Congress to preserve and restore pulp fiction: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x167t28_library-of-congress-to-preserve-and-restore-pulp-fiction_news …
- Heath Lowrence–The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Cinematic Bad-Ass: http://heathlowrance.tumblr.com/post/79660867959/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-the-cinematic-bad-ass …
- Friend of VWOP and great novelist Wallace Stroby on unknown heist films. We disagree on City of Industy. http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2014/01/the-five-best-heist-films-youve-never-seen-wallace-stroby …
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I love City of Industry. Keitel’s Roy Egan may be as close to a cinematic Parker as we’re going to get. Don’t know if I can agree with Wallace about it being better than Heat–it’s kind of unfair to compare the two–one is a sweeping epic (Heat), the other an intense gritty character study (COI). I love both films.
Congratulations to Darwyn Cooke for winning yet another Eisner Award, for Slayground! It’s good to see a very talented person justly recognized for their excellence.