Wednesday, September 28, 2011

How can someone write this beautifully?

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"He is awake, with no idea what time it maybe, or whether, really, he has slept at all. He sleeps poorly these days. Strange, too, how ...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Weeds

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This is not the TV show, you know, this is the Nick Nolte film from 1987 that has never been released on DVD. Weeds is an interesting, if fl...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Charles Ardai talks about the lost Cain

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Duane Swierczynski talks about the recently found James M. Cain novel with Charles Ardai. Take a look here .
Friday, September 23, 2011

Friday's Forgotten Book: Juri Nummelin: Outoa huminaa, Joe Novak

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I was going through bookshelves to put away some books I don't really need and I found my first novel, the self-published Outoa huminaa,...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

George "Jerry Cotton" Nader's gay porn sci-fi novel

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James Reasoner has written about the German pulp series (or Romanhäfte, as the actual term is) in his blog here and here...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Kjell Westö: Lang (A Finnish crime novel)

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Well, not actually a crime novel per se, more like a mainstream novel with a crime in its center. Kjell Westö's (from the Swedish-speaki...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Big Sleep Books: Duane Swiercznyski's "Expiration Date" Winner of 2...

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Big Sleep Books: Duane Swiercznyski's "Expiration Date" Winner of 2... : Congratulations to Duane Swierczynski for winning the...

Lost James M. Cain novel rediscovered

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Hard Case Crime is going to publish an unpublished novel by James M. Cain! Take a look here .
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Massimo Carlotto: The Goodbye Kiss

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I read a review of this books somewhere on-line (can't remember where; I think it must've been Bookgasm , but can't find that on...
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The Finnish Film Archive screenings

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I'm just advertising here: the Finnish Film Archive starts its series here in Turku after the summer break. Here's what we have to o...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

David Corbett's Do They Know I'm Running?

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I've been reading David Corbett's articulate and interesting posts on the Rara-Avis e-mail list for some time now and many people o...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The Big Brass Ring

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The Big Brass Ring has been getting lots of bad reviews in IMDb, and I can easily understand them, since they are right about many things: ...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Hard Case Crime dress - and a beauty in high heels!

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Fashion designer Hally McGehean will be premiering her first wearable art collection during New York Fashion Week in a two-part fashion eve...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

Kevin Wignall's vampire trilogy

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Huh, Kevin Wignall and vampires? Sounds quite an unlikely combination, you say? The writer of noir masterpieces Who Is Conrad Hirst? and A...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

Oh, I have a new book out

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I just put up a lengthy post about my new book in one of my other blogs. It's my first book for children: a collection of fairytales by ...
Wednesday, September 07, 2011

The new issue of Pulp out

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My webzine Pulp has a new issue out. Check it out here . It's in Finnish, mind you, but take a look nevertheless. You might find some ni...

Tuesday's (or actually Wednesday's) Overlooked Film: The Humpbacked Horse (1975)

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As you're probably aware by now, I'm interested in old animated cartoons and animations in general. I've always been interested ...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

New Finnish crime literature: Bagge, Rönkä, Kilpi

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I was down with flu for almost two weeks. I'm still a bit ill, but I'm so behind my work I'll have to start doing something. The...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tuesday's (or actually Wednesday's) Overlooked Film: Trance (1998)

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It's odd how cheap VHS cassettes are now: I found this in a trash bin at our yard, with some other TV-recorded cult items like Plan 9 fr...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Where is this picture taken from?

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I've seen it a dozen times, I know it's from a pulp mag from the late thirties, but I can't place it. Black Mask?
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