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PULP POLITICS: A REVIEW OF THE OBAMA INHERITANCE EDITED BY GARY PHILLIPS

It's always been common to spin the truth in politics and even enter realms of speculation. Now it seems that outright myth has become ...

On Westerns & Race: An Interview With Joe R. Lansdale

Joe Lansdale's Paradise Sky received some of his finest reviews when it was released. Taking the life and myth of black cowboy and dime...

Steve Bannon & The Wild Bunch

It's shocking when someone you don't particularly like has passion for the same book or movie you do. It is worse if they are someone...

Reed Farrel Coleman Makes Jesse Stone His Own In The Hangman's Sonnet

When reading Reed Farrel Coleman's previous Jesse Stone novel, Debt To Pay, it felt he was moving Robert B. Parker's Paradise Mass....

What Is The Hard Word?

Welcome to my site, The Hard Word. I'm your host, Scott Montgomery bookseller, reader, genre writer, and bohemian red neck (it's why I...

OUT OF THE PAST & TRAINS NOT TAKEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH CRAIG JOHNSON

It's fitting for couple of reasons Craig Johnson is the first author to be interviewed at The Hard Word. One he is close friend. Craig's...

SIX GUNS AND PSYCHO-NOIR: A REVIEW OF ARNOLD HANO'S THE LAST NOTCH

WARNING: The third paragraph gives away something the author may have intended as a surprise in the second chapter The Last Notch is not...

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