One of the very best items in the archives of this site is an interview with Donald Westlake from a 1988 issue of The Armchair Detective. Recently, I was contacted by someone who pointed out to me that the PDF viewer was no longer working. It turns out that the company that made the […]
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A younger Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit. Hello, folks! Been awhile! You’re far more interested in the movie news, so I’ll be quick in talking about the site. I put the site up in its current form around 2008, using a theme called Atahualpa. It was easy to use and I was […]
As some of you frustrated readers know, I’ve never understood the appeal of Twitter, so while I do use it to inform people of new posts here and link the occasional interesting article, I don’t check the @worldofparker account regularly. But, fortunately, I did a couple of weeks ago, where I found […] 
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 […] |
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