Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Duane Swierczynski: Revolver

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I've been a fan of Duane Swierczynski's writing for a long time, and I ended up translating his break-through novel The Wheelman in...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

W. Glenn Duncan: Rafferty's Rules

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Lately I've been reading stuff that's been loaded on my Kindle, something I haven't been doing for ages. One of the books I'...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects

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I liked Gone Girl quite a bit, but I liked Gillian Flynn's earlier novel, Dark Places , much more. It was darker and pulled me in with ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Stark House Western Classics

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There's been some talk about the idea of reprinting classic hardboiled and noirish westerns of the fifties and sixties. I compiled such ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Reign of Fire

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I didn't see this post-apocalyptic dragon film when it was new, and I got interested only after it had gotten some sort of a cult status...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)

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We just had the annual Summer get-together of the Finnish Western Society. We watched three more or less obscure films, one of them being On...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Always Outnumbered

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I haven't read Walter Mosley's novel Always Outgunned, Always Outnumbered (1997), but when I saw a free VHS copy of the film based ...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Small Crimes

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Evan Katz's Small Crimes  (2017) is an excellent neo-noir film after Dave Zeltserman's novel of the same name. Nicolaj Coster-Walda...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

The Maltese Falcon, comic book version

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Evan Lewis has been posting chapters of the comic book version of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon on his blog. Check them out here .
Friday, May 12, 2017

Just a quick update: election, new books, coming books, a beautiful cover for one

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Just announcing I'm not dead yet, though the latest blog post is from, what, two months back! Can this really be? Time flies really f...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Shellarama

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I stumbled on this Shell-produced documentary almost by accident: I've been preparing a book that collects the writings of the Turku-bas...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Suburbia, by Penelope Spheeris

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I don't recall anymore when or where I first heard of Penelope Spheeris's film Suburbia (1983). It must've been an old Finnis...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: The French Connection (1971)

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I don't think anyone with sane mind would be able to say that William Friedkin's The French Connection is an overlooked movie. It...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Andy Straka: A Witness Above

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I'd never heard about Andy Straka before, but I snatched his PI novel A Witness Above from the Brash Books newsletter, when it was fre...
Monday, January 23, 2017

New collection of one-word poems out

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As some of may remember, I have some interest in experimental poetry. I've done a collection of e-mail spam poetry that is still availab...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Teuvo Tulio, Finland's mad genius

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Here's a new article on Finnish film-maker Teuvo Tulio on the AV Club's site. Short quote: "In the pantheon of unclassifiable f...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Dan Simmons: Summer of Night

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I was going to do this as a part of the Friday's Forgotten Book series, but then I realized it's not Friday, it's Tuesday, and I...
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Friday's Forgotten Book: John Dinan: Sports in the Pulp Magazines

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As I wrote in my earlier post, I have a new book out. It's a collection of articles and essays on different kinds of genre and pulp fict...
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Monday, December 19, 2016

New books from my publishing house

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As you may well remember, I founded a publishing house a couple months ago. A new batch of books just arrived, alas somewhat too late for ...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Jim Hosking: The Greasy Strangler

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The Greasy Strangler , the first feature film by Jim Hosking , is something else entirely: it's a horror-comedy about a serial killer, b...