Monday Interview: Steve Hamilton
After reading Steve Hamilton‘s first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, it didn’t take me long to zip through the rest of his seven Alex McKnight novels. The last time I was this captivated by an author...
View ArticleMonday Interview: John McNally
It seems like an easy jab: those who can, do, those who can’t, teach. It’s also easy to fall into the mocked side of that dichotomy. How many writers take up a full-time teaching gig — for whatever...
View ArticleMisguided Reality Hunger leaves reader with sensibility hunger
David Shields lost me with little more than this: “(!?)” In his new book (and I use the term “his” loosely, as will become clear in a moment), he makes the case that fiction is dead, and that...
View ArticleJohn Verdon: The Monday Interview
I read enough mystery and crime fiction series to last me a lifetime. Literally; the pace some of my favorite authors crank out books, coupled with the back catalogs of those I came to late, I could...
View ArticleHard Case Crime plans Lawrence Block original for 2011
More great news out this week from Hard Case Crime for we Lawrence Block fans. As if HCC’s efforts to bring out-of-print Block books back to life weren’t enough, now Charles Ardai and Co. are working...
View ArticleBest books of 2010 (that I read)
It was too difficult to narrow things to a top 10 in this, my first attempt at a best books of the year list. So, I offer instead a dozen, 12 books that were a cut above in 2010 (in alphabetical...
View ArticleStrauss’ Everyone Loves You… is the best music book in years
CONTEST: I have two copies of Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead to give away. To enter, leave a comment with the name of your favorite rock writer or favorite profile of an artist, and let us know...
View ArticleMarcus’ Doors book makes deluge accessible
No one reads a Greil Marcus book because they want to learn about an artist. Yes, they might do so to learn more about an artist, but that is an important distinction. Perhaps it is better to say that...
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