Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Simon Lelic's Rupture

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I read the Finnish translation of Simon Lelic's Rupture ( A Thousand Cuts seems to be the US title) book and wrote a review of it for t...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Moomins, those satanists

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Instead of a proper post*, here's a link to a hilariously inane "article" on Moomins, the great fairytale novels of Tove Janss...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Three books in two weeks!

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I'm not sure anymore whether I got any new books out last Fall. At least three books were delayed - which of course lead to the situatio...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Michael Koryta's A Welcome Grave

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You might remember I lost this book for at least a week and my reading experience was a bit ruffled by the incident, but it was still a ver...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Marquise of O

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In Arthur Penn's seminal private eye film, Night Moves , Gene Hackman says that watching an Eric Rohmer film is like watching paint dry...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Book: Patricia Highsmith's A Game for the Living

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It's been a while since I last read something by Patricia Highsmith. I haven't read enough of her work to call myself a fan, but I...
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Pirates of the 20th Century

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Seems like I'm doing only these Overlooked meme posts nowadays... (And I keep forgetting the blogger's rule No. 1: don't complai...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Tuesday's... er, Wednesday's Overlooked Film: Manifesto

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Honestly, I was going to post this already yesterday, on Tuesday, but I never got around to doing it, so I'll do it now and send a link ...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Little interview with JT Ellison

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Some years ago I published a small flash fiction story, called "Madonna in the Grass", by American writer JT Ellison in one of my...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Essay on Shaft

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I've never been a fan of Shaft, but this longish essay or article on the origin of the character was fascinating. Check it out! Check...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Anima Persa

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The Finnish Film Archive showed last night a very interesting Italian film that's not very well known: Dino Risi's Anima Persa (197...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Winterbottom's Killer Inside Me

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Michael Winterbottom's controversial rendering of Jim Thompson's famous paperback original, The Killer Inside Me , didn't seem...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Book: Max Brand: Jim Silver, hjälten från Arizona

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Don't have time to do a proper Forgotten Book entry, so a photo of a Max Brand translated in Finland, but published in Swedish will hav...
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

My working bibliography: Nummeliniana

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I celebrated my 10-year career as a writer two weeks ago.* Beside the big party I threw, I also published a small leaflet containing my work...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Roger Smith's Mixed Blood

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I stayed up late last night finishing Roger Smith's South African thriller Mixed Blood . Only thing I can say is "vow!" What ...
Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: A Force of One

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The idea of me commenting on a Chuck Norris film is something mind-boggling, but when I found a vintage Norris film A Force of One on VHS f...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Books: Operation Sex by Kimberly Kemp and an unknown sleaze book by Gerald Kramer

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For just the fun of it, I picked up recently two old sex paperbacks (in Finnish translation) and read them. The first one of them I actually...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Coleman's and Bruen's Tower

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Reed Farrel Coleman is one of my favourite new private eye writers - he has a great sense of tragedy, place and noir. I've read less of...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Dreams That Money Can Buy

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I've had this film on DVD for years on loan from a friend of mine, but I had some time to watch only now. I'd read about the film q...
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True Grit: a dime novel

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Graphic novel version of the Coens' True Grit . Looks good to me.