Friday, September 18, 2009

My first collection of poems: Bodice Ripper Apart

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This book has been long time in coming. I started saving spam e-mail some four or five years ago, in order to gather enough of them to make...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

James Sallis's Kylmä kyyti (aka Drive) out in Finnish!

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James Sallis's Kylmä kyyti (Drive) is the latest book in the paperback series I edit for the Finnish publisher, Arktinen Banaani. The b...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Reino Helismaan länkkäreistä

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(This is about the small collection of the western stories of a Finnish writer I recently compiled and which is now out.) Kuten lupasin, kir...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Great western illo for the weekend

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I emptied my cell phone and found this, a photo of a mid-to-late sixties Finnish western digest mag, called Lännensarja (The Western Series)...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Friday's Forgotten Book: Leonard Gribble's Striptease Macabre

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Leonard Gribble was a British writer of police procedurals and detective novels, with some westerns on the side. He's pretty much forgot...
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Victor Gischler's Vampire A-Go-Go

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Victor Gischler's new novel, Vampire A-Go-Go , has been available for some days now. I had a chance to read it just last weekend - even ...
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

New Kid On The Block: The Outfit

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JT Lindroos's publisher, the home of Dave Zeltserman's Fast Lane and many Willeford reprints, PointBlank is officially no more. He ...
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New book out: Reino Helismaa's western short stories

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This book is finally out. Will be posting more about it later.

The Spam Book

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Promoting a collection of articles my friend had a hand in: Announcing a new book on the dark side of network culture: THE SPAM BOOK On Viru...
Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Gabriel Hunt Through the Cradle of Fear

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Now, this is what Dan Brown's books should be like! Swift and fast, full of action and exotic locales, not too full of overtly long pseu...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday's Forgotten Book: Päivö Suomela's Mustan ketun kirot

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Okay, this is really a forgotten book, since it's Finnish - and I don't think anyone's read that even in here for at least 20 ye...

Another blog post on another blog

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Hell, I seem to be more active in my other blogs than this one... Here goes nevertheless: another post on Finnish war-time magazines here .
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Allan Guthrie's Savage Night

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Allan Guthrie's Savage Night (2008) is not an easy feat. It's not entertainment, even though it's wildly funny, in a way you ju...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Citta Violent/The Violent City

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I watched last night an Italian film called Citta Violenta aka The Violent City . It's one of the better Italian crime films from the si...

Pulpish illustration from a Swedish mag

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Bought this earlier today from the Turku market square, where there's a bookseller. It's a Swedish hobby mag from 1944. The illustra...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Panu Räty on Finnish pulp literature

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Quote from the City weekly in 1991. Sorry 'bout being in Finnish. Can't really begin to count the errors on this small item... Let...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Harlequin's vintage collection

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Someone pointed out earlier today at the Rara-Avis e-mail list (which is focused on hardboiled and noir crime writing) that Harlequin is bri...
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Reading doesn't pay: Gregg Hurwitz: The Program

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As I mentioned, I've been silent here for some days now, mainly because I've been both working frantically and trying to spend some ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A piece on Finnish fictionmag

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I posted a piece on a Finnish war-time fictionmag on one of my other blogs here . Sorry to have been so silent, trying to get the work routi...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Bloodstone

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I've been watching some films lately, which is surprisingly rare for me nowadays - the work (which involves a lot of reading and I don...
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