London-based journalist and author of Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War; Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction; and Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood.
Les Blank est mort
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J'avais cessé d'écrire sur mon blog depuis fin janvier je crois, trop accaparé par mon travail pour la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. C'est la mort de Les Blank...
Whispering Death, by Garry Disher
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I'm just catching up with the newest Hal Challis/Ellen Destry book by
Australia's Garry Disher (when his next, a Wyatt book, is just about to
come out). W...
DAVID THOMAS' OSTLAND
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*Ostland *is an ambitious and very powerful novel that reflects the
ultimate incomprehensibility of the Holocaust. Beginning with the framework
of a crime ...
Notes on blogland
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I have never been motivated enough to write anything detailed about the
political valences of 'the internet', despite plenty of goading, and
despite having...
Natural Causes by James Oswald
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The first in the DI McLean series: intriguing, moderately paced and with a
tinge of the supernatural. Edinburgh: A young girl’s mutilated body is
discovere...
Art Chronicles: Saloua Raouda Choucair
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Barely known in this country, little known one suspects outside her native
Lebanon, the artist Salouda Raouda Choucair is the subject of a new
exhibition a...
Noir: The Not-so-shy pornographer, Samuel Roth
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Written by Jay Gertzman, author of Bootleggers and Smuthounds- 1920-40:
The Trade in Erotica, as well as an excellent essay on David Goodis,
Infamous Mod...
70 “Expressman Blues” by Sleepy John Estes
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“Expressman Blues”, recorded in Memphis, TN, on may 17, 1930 with Sleepy
John Estes on guitar, Yank Rachell on vocal ...
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