Thursday, June 26, 2008

The last issue of Hardluck Stories

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Dave Zeltserman's great webzine Hardluck Stories has - sadly - come to its last issue. You can find the pulp-tribute issue here . At lea...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

The University of Chicago Press reprinting Richard Stark

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The covers of the first three reprints of Richard Stark's (AKA Donald Westlake's) Parker novels leaked out. You can see them here , ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

They're already diggin' it

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Duane Swierczynski seems proud of his forth-coming Finnish edition . And he should be. (I should be, too. Elina told me I should be proud of...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

And finally.. the paperback line

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I've been hinting for at least two years now that I may start editing a crime paperback line. Now it's finally official. The Finnish...
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Arktisen Banaanin pokkaridekkarit

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Aiemmin sarjakuvakustantajana tunnettu Arktinen Banaani laajentaa ensi syksynä pokkareiden ja myös dekkareiden puolelle. Sarjan dekkarit kes...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Finished things

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I feel like a million bucks. The reason: I finished some hours back the first draft of the translation of a major new American hardboiled ca...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Se on Ewers, ei Ebers!

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(Just something that bugs me.) Minua on tänään ärsyttänyt Waltari-kirjoittelussa toistuva virhe, jonka mukaan Waltarin suomentaman Horst Wes...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Dan Sontup on Scott Meredith

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Oops... sorry, my memory of this little piece was that it was more about Sontup's career, but it's almost only about his stint at Sc...
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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Coming posts

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After posting the Jory Sherman bibliography I remembered another item I have sitting on my computer that might be of interest - a short memo...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

And Jory Sherman's bibliography...

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(Someone once talked about how blogs could be sexy... You couldn't get any sexier than this. Steamy stuff, let me tell you!) After wr...
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Jory Sherman's interview

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A nice interview with Jory Sherman , ex-beat poet and Western paperbacker, who's had a long career, starting out with poetry and eating ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Algis Budrys dead

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Heard earlier today that American science fiction writer Algis Budrys has died. When I read the obits by Ed Gorman and Todd Mason , I was a...
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Kaksi vähäistä tekstiäni

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(Just talking about some of my lesser writings.) Posti toi tänään kaksi kirjaa, joissa kummassakin on tekstiäni: Suomen tietokirjailijoiden ...
Monday, June 09, 2008

Huoratron: Finnish electro at its most fierce

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Check out the latest video $$ Troopers by Huoratron, the Finnish hard bleep act. May not work best on a computer screen, but the video is g...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Review of Con Sellers's Red Rape

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Here's a great review of Con Sellers's Red Rape , rather dubious sleaze-cum-hardboiled-action paperback from the early sixties. Shou...

John Benteen's Fargo

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James Reasoner reviews one of the Fargo paperbacks by John Benteen AKA Ben Haas (also AKA Richard Meade and some other pseudonyms). I've...

Moorcock and I

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Forgot to say (actually forgot all about it myself) that my short piece on an old sleaze film called The Smut Peddler (1965) appeared on Ea...
Friday, June 06, 2008

A better cover for Kirsti Ellilä's book

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Tein sen sitten saman tien: muokkasin Kirsti Ellilän Outoa rakkautta -kirjan kantta. En osannut tehdä sitä Photoshopissa enkä osannut tehdä ...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

Some obscure and more obscure animated cartoons

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I've been watching some pretty forgotten or unknown animated cartoons lately. I don't really know why I like to waste my time on th...

Kirsti Ellilän novellikokoelma Turbatorilta

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Kirsti Ellilän novellikokoelma Outoa rakkautta Turbatorin m-sarjassa ilmestyi maanantaina. Kirja sisältää kuusi novellia, joista kaksi on i...