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To avoid any confusion, I will note upfront that this is not the movie called The Actor directed by Richard Blake that was released earlier this year and is currently available on streaming services (although that one looks like it might be fun). Donald Westlake’s superb posthumous novel Memory is getting a movie […] 
After an absence of over a decade, I return to the SFFaudio podcast to discuss Brother and Sister, a smut novel by Donald Westlake (as Edwin West) that is about exactly what it sounds like it’s about. How did it go? Well, I never listen to podcast appearances after recording, but I didn’t have […]
Note: Mild spoilers. I should note up front that I am not the target market for Call Me a Cab. This posthumous novel began its published life as a novella for Redbook. It is a will-they-or-won’t-they story aimed at women, not at all the sort of thing I would pick up if it […] A DIRTY DOZEN WITH A FRENCH CONNECTION When four groups of international heist artists team up to pull off the theft of the century – stealing an entire castle, and the treasure hidden in its walls – what could possibly go wrong? Well, consider this: none of the master thieves speak each […] Can you spot why I posted this shot of Ben Stiller from Night at the Museum? Answer below the fold (or scroll down). […] In February 2021, Hard Case Crime is re-releasing Castle in the Air, which has been out of print for forty years. I’m excited about this one, as it’s eluded me at used book stores. A DIRTY DOZEN. WITH A FRENCH CONNECTION. When four groups of international heist artists team up to pull off the […] 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: This is the first 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. What is the […] Some exciting news from our friends at Hard Case Crime. Two short novels have been repackaged as Double Feature. The title is appropriate, as both were adapted into films, and both involve film.I haven’t read either, nor seen the film adaptations, so I’m looking forward to this.First in the volume is Ordo, which was […] |
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