Greetings, all! I hope you’re holding up during quarantine. I’m enjoying having more time for reading and watching movies, but it sure would be nice to do something other than reading or watching movies. Here are a few items of interest from the past few weeks, that I hope will provide you some entertainment as we all sit at home. I’ll also have a new post or two this week, as I finish writing up the Hard Case Crime reprint Double Feature (AKA Enough).
- Max Allan Collins’ Parker pastiche Nolan is returning via Hard Case Crime, with reprints and a new novel: http://www.maxallancollins.com/blog/2019/12/03/one-more-time-for-nolan/
- Via James Reasoner, A Trawl Among the Shelves: Lawrence Block Bibliography, 1958-2020, is a mere $3.99 for Kindle: https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-trawl-among-shelves-lawrence-block.html
- There is a new, fun, Twitter account called ParkerQuote. Is one of you running it? https://twitter.com/ParkerQuote
- From a few months back–Phil Poggiali is a guest on the James Bond Complex podcast discussing Donald Westlake’s attempted work with the 007 franchise and the resultant Forever and a Death (Fall of the City): https://anchor.fm/the-james-bond-complex/episodes/Formula-for-a-Franchise-Donald-Westlakes-Bond-Adventure—with-Phil-Poggiali-e9ur13/a-a194qen
- Project Gutenberg has free e-books of four Donald Westlake science fiction short stories that have fallen into the public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/32451
- Craig Pittman at CrimeReads – Elmore Leonard, Florida Man: https://crimereads.com/elmore-leonard-florida-man
- Andrew Nette at CrimeReads – Carter Brown and the Australian Craze for Faux American Crime Fiction: https://crimereads.com/carter-brown-and-the-australian-craze-for-faux-american-crime-fiction/
Off-topic
Some posts from my other place.
- I look at the remake of Dario Argento’s horror classic, Suspiria.
- Rest in peace to Stuart Gordon, director of the horror classic Re-Animator. Here’s my review of his horror-comedy Dolls.
- I cannot recommend The Amazing Spider-Man.
- I can highly recommend Walk Through Fire, the debut album by Yola. I hope to have a lot more album reviews in the future.
Yola – “Faraway Look”
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