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Note: This is the third of four posts on Donald Westlake’s 1977 collection of two novellas, Enough, reprinted by Hard Case Crime as Double Feature. The series covers the novellas and the movies based on them. Links to the other entries in the series are at the bottom of this post. “Ordo,” the second […]  Note: New content will be light to non-existent for the next week or two, as I travel to celebrate a belated Christmas and an on-time New Year with my family back home. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this (very) hurriedly-written summary of 2010. I hope that your holidays have been and will […] Well, somehow I got suckered into contributing to a podcast! Jesse Willis of SFFaudio invited me to join him and Gregg Margarite for a freewheeling discussion of Donald Westlake’s posthumously-published Memory for the SFFaudio podcast. I got over my terror pretty quickly and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Check […] Hard Case Crime impresario Charles Ardai drops some knowledge at Rara-Avis. > Oh, one other question: I guess this means there were no > just-finished works left behind when [Donald Westlake] died? No, no just-finished works. At the end of his life, Don was publishing his books as quickly […] The official release date for Donald Westlake’s lost novel, Memory, is 3/30/10. However, Charles Ardai at Hard Case Crime reports: I’ve seen and held a copy; I’ve seen it available for delivery on Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com (and the easier-to-type bn.com); and I’ve seen it on the shelves of one bookstore near me. […]
Via the Hard Case Crime e-mail list: Friends, In six weeks, we’re going to publish Donald E. Westlake’s unpublished novel, MEMORY. Both Publishers Weekly and Booklist have given it starred reviews, calling it “a significant final work from a master” and “absolutely a must-read.” The book hits stores at the end of March — but if you’re reading this message you have a chance to get a copy sooner than that. At the start of March we’re going to be sending 12 free advance copies of the book to randomly selected people from our mailing list. Interested in throwing your hat into the ring? Well, we don’t need your hat — just send your name and the address to which you’d like the book mailed if you’re chosen to drawing@hardcasecrime.com before 5PM (New York time) on February 28. It’s as simple as that. All we ask is that if you’re selected you help us tell the world about the book, either by posting a review on a site like Amazon.com or BN.com, or by wrting about it in your blog (if you have one), or in whatever other ways you can think of. Actually…we’d be grateful for anything you can do along these lines regardless of whether yours is one of the dozen names we wind up drawing. MEMORY is one of the most important books we’ve ever had the privilege to publish, and anything you can do to help spread the word about it is much appreciated.
I recently corresponded with Hard Case Crime editor and publisher Charles Ardai over at Rara-Avis. The inspiration for the discussion was the butchering of the Harlequin Vintage Collection to make it more politically correct. I thought that you might find the discussion interesting and asked for permission to post it here, which Mr. Ardai was kind enough to grant. (Edited slightly.) Trent: If I recall correctly, you edit some of your reprints (I seem to remember you asking Donald Westlake to make changes to Somebody Owes Me Money). Do I recall correctly, and if I do, what do you use as a basis for those decisions? Continue reading Editing Hard Case Crime: A discussion with Charles Ardai
Exciting news from Hard Case Crime. I’ll let them tell you about it: Friends, Why haven’t you heard from me in so long? Because I’ve had a piece of news to share that I couldn’t share until now. As you probably know, the great Donald E. Westlake, one of […] |
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