Monday, November 16, 2020

Sixties' sleaze twofer: Mark Clements's The Boss's Daughter & Ken Kane's Racket Babe

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Hello again, it's been a while, huh? I got back to doing my book on American sleaze paperbacks translated in Finnish and read these two ...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Sex writer Peter Keyes's real name solved?

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Collins in the cover of a pulp mag I'm after a long, long hiatus getting back to my book on American sleaze paperbacks translated in...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dorothy M. Johnson: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and A Man Called Horse

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I've been going through some American Western classics that have never been translated in Finnish, for some reason or another (someone m...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Dennis Hopper: Out of the Blue

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Dennis Hopper made only a few films as a director. His third directorial effort was Out of the Blue (1980) that has largely almost duplicat...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (spoilers!)

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Lots has been said about Tarantino's newest film, and I don't pretend I have something entirely new to say about it. I enjoyed the f...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Tana French: The Witch Elm

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As almost everyone who's ever read my blog (that sadly seems defunct most of the time nowadays) knows I love American crime fiction. But...
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Thursday, August 08, 2019

Friday's Forgotten Book: Donald E. Westlake: Brothers Keepers

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I've always been more interested in Donald Westlake's darker and more hardboiled stories than his humorous crime fiction, but I was ...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Ed Wood's sex stories coming your way!?

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Ed Wood's erotic prose is getting a collection. Find out more about it here ! I never got around to reading Wood's earlier horro...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Jordan Harper: She Rides Shotgun

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I'm late joining the crowd praising Jordan Harper's first novel, She Rides Shotgun . It came out already in 2017 (okay, less than ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Jason Starr: Fugitive Red

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I bought three new crime novels for Christmas presents for myself, and I managed to read two of them during the holidays (Tana French's ...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Sam Hawken: Missing

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I really liked Hawken's earlier novel, Juaréz Dance , in all its minimalism. During the last Christmas holiday, I read his later novel...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Tuesday's Overlooked Film: Time of the Heathen (1962)

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Okay, this is not an overlooked film, it's forgotten to the point of being almost non-existent. I saw the movie on 35 mm film in the scr...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Thomas Berger: Little Big Man

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The cover shows an Apache man, though the book famously depicts the Cheyenne. Photo is by Edward Curtis. I'm doing an essay on the...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

Jason Pinter: Fury

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I read earlier (eight years ago!) a pleasant paperback novel by Jason Pinter, The Mark , and wanting to read something lightweight I picked ...
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Friday, August 03, 2018

Jonathan Ames: You Were Never Really Here

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I had an opportunity to see Lynne Ramsay's latest film You Were Never Really Here on big screen, and though it's shot entirely digi...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Laura Lippman: Sunburn

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I read Laura Lippman's new thriller, Sunburn , already a month ago, when we were coming back from Crete. I started it in a plane and w...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Friday's Forgotten Book: Gardner F. Fox: Barbary Slave

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We did a week-long trip to Chania and Gerani in Crete, and I took, as usual with our trips, my Kindle along. I didn't get to read much (...
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Friday, June 08, 2018

Grover Brinkman

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When I was doing my ground-breaking first book, Pulpografia , the encyclopedia of over 300 American pulp and paperback crime writers publish...
Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Otso Kantokorpi ja dekkarit

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Dekkariseuran Ruumiin kulttuuri 80-luvulta, jolloin Otso lehteen kirjoitti Oops! This went to a wrong blog, I meant to post this on Jul...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Robert Silverberg: Gilgamesh the King

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I seem to have some difficulties with my reading. The two earlier books (and some others I haven't mentioned here in the blog) I almost ...