Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: The Honeymoon Killers

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I'm not really sure if this merits as an overlooked movie, since it's quite of a cult classic. Leonard Kastle's The Honeymoon Ki...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

The last issue of Pulp

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Earlier I put the shades on my crime fiction webzine  Isku , today I did the same for my non-fiction webzine, Pulp . Here you can read the l...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Himmelskibet, part II

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I wrote about this silent Danish science fiction movie some weeks ago here . I had a chance to see the whole film at the Tampere Internation...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

John Carter of Mars

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I recently saw John Carter of Mars , the 3D film version of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Mars novels. The film has been getting rather mixed r...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Peer review for my novel

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My friend and colleague Jukka Halme read my novel Jumalten tuho / Twilight of the Gods and said thus: "I really liked Twilight of the ...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Contest for my novel

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I'm having a contest over at my Finnish-speaking blog here . I also started posting the original "Jumalten tuho" short story a...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

New eBook publisher, Prologue Books

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New eBook publisher that just does good things: Prologue Books that offers only old hardboiled and noir classics. Lots of great stuff: Flet...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Trailer for Twilight of the Gods

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Jumalten tuho from Juri Nummelin on Vimeo . Here's the trailer my friend Mies Mikkonen did for Jumalten tuho / Twilight of the Go...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

My Actual First Novel arrived today!

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Here I'm sitting on the floor, reading bemusedly the first novel by be that's published by someone else than me. (In real life this ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Fires on the Plain open for submissions

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Cullen Callagher, the mastermind behind the great Pulp Serenade blog, is officially soon launching his new website, Fires on the Plain . It...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: Plunder Road

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This is apparently a pretty rare late film noir, since it's got only five reviews in IMDb. I loaned this on a VHS cassette from a friend...
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Donald Westlake Friday

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I'm a bit late on this, but better late than never, right? Here's a link to the Friday's Forgotten Book postings organized by Pa...

Complete Paul Cain

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From Centipede Press . The package looks very nice.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Robert Silverberg's sleaze novels

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Old smut paperbacks have been seeing quite of a renaissance in the last couple years: there have been lots of blog posts about them, there a...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ed Gorman's Cage of Night

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I was earlier asking about misanthropy in crime fiction, but now I'm writing about a crime novel that's far from being misanthropic....
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Misanthropy in crime fiction

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Question for the group mind: can you think and name any examples of misanthropy in crime fiction, classic, hardboiled or other? I should be ...
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The Pop History Dig » “Rockwell & Race”1963-1968

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Long and interesting article upon which I stumbled and thought to share: The Pop History Dig » “Rockwell & Race”1963-1968
Friday, February 10, 2012

The scale of the universe

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This is so breath-takingly beautiful I burst out crying.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: The City of Fear

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Irving Lerner is not a household name, though he's been revered by some film noir enthusiasts for a long time, such as Martin Scorsese....
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Tarantula

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I don't really know whether Jack Arnold's Tarantula merits the Overlooked Film title, since it's one of the classics of the fift...
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