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"A FILM SHOOT IS A COMMUNITY OF IDEAS AND DECISIONS.: AN INTERVIEW WITH "NEVER ODD OR EVEN'S FRANK M. YOUNG
Frank M. Young captures the experience of working on a film, even though it's a one of a kind experience he writes about in Never Odd Or...
THADD TURNER'S THE HARD RIDE
James Butler Hickok often serves as a tragic figure of the Old West. Trapped in a life of violence and celebrity he at times pursued,...
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS: S.A. COSBY'S KING OF ASHES
In King of Ashes, S.A. Cosby has created his darkest novel, which is saying something. Violence and despair hanG in the air and can...
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A YOUNG CRIMINAL: FRANK M. YOUNG'S NEVER ODD OR EVEN
Crime novels dealing with Hollywood and filmmaking could be their own subgenre. It started before before Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty and...
"THE CHARACTERS ARE PRODUCTS OF THIER ERA": THE HANGMAN & OTHER STORIES BILL PRONZINI
For almost half a century Bill Pronzini has produced well crafted genre fiction, one of them being the western. Last year The Hangman &...
."..I WANT THE READER TO FEEL AS IF THEY'RE THERE.": AN INTERVIEW WITH RETURN TO SENDER'S CRAIG JOHNSON
In the latest Walt Longmire novel, the Wyoming sheriff goes looking for a missing mail carrier who travels the longest route in the...
A CRIME WRITER IN CHANGING TIMES: LIONEL WHITE'S THE CRIMSHAW MEMORANDUM & HIJACK
Stark House Press continues to reprint more works of heistmanster Lionel White. whose books were as precise and well executed as the...
"THAT BROKEN, BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL MAN IS SOMEONE I WANTED TO WRITE FOR": RAYMOND CHANDLER'S TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS' ARVIND ETHAN DAVID
Raymond Chandler's Trouble Is My Business adapted by Arvind Ethan David (script), Ilias Kyriazis (pencil and inks), and Chris Peter...
COVERING A LOT OF RANGE: BILL PRONZINI'S THE HANGING MAN & OTHER WESTERN STORIES
In the forward to his latest collection, The Hanging Man & Other Western Tales, Bill Pronzini, takes certain critics to task. He chides...
DEATH IN THE DESERT: CRAIG JOHNSON'S RETURN TO SENDER
In the latest Sheriff Walt Longmire book, Craig Johnson utilizes a piece of Wyoming trivia, the state having a postal route over three...
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