Monthly Archives: June 2014

Rediscovered: My First Time in the Times

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Don

I was chatting with a photo editor for the New York Times, narrowing down a date to meet the photog and shoot around a hundred pics for the Dan Saltzstein noir-in-San Francisco article that ran the other day — a hundred or more … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: Burritt Room + Tavern

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Don

Jim Dinan popped in a shot from the tour he took on September 8, 2013 — and he also sent along the moody pic of Burritt alley above. Black & white. Very noir. I bet Burritt has been photographed thousands … Continue reading →

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Tour: Frommer’s Slideshow of Lit Walks Around the World

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Don

The New York Times article yesterday on noir in San Francisco also featured a slideshow of sites and personalities. A few days before that, though, the Frommer’s website put up another slideshow featuring five literary walks done around the entire world. … Continue reading →

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Noir: Frisco Style — Per the New York Times

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Don

The New York Times just put up today Daniel Saltzstein’s on-the-ground-in-Frisco ruminations on noir — check it out. I’m interviewed, and photographed against a wall in Burritt alley. Plus Daniel gabs it up with other people and tracks down some off … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Weird Tales, Paperbacked and eBooked

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Don

Just the other day Terry Zobeck did up a list of pretty much everything Hammett ever wrote or edited, including a single anthology — of horror fiction. Creeps by Night. Take a gander at the cover for a British paperback reprint of … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: The Latest Raconteur

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Don

By the time I wake up today copies of Two-Gun Raconteur 17 ought to be moving briskly out of the Gift Shop in the Robert E. Howard House in Cross Plains, Texas — a little something extra to help kick … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Stylometry and Other Statistical Stuff

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Don

On June 11, 1936 — 78 years ago today — the thirty-year-old Texas author Robert E. Howard shot himself in the head, ending a volcanic career at the keys of a typewriter which included the creation of such cultural icons as Conan … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Men, Women, Jungles and Chain Mail Bikinis

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Don

In Round One of his review of Conan Meets the Academy, Brian Leno padded into the ring, finding that editor Jonas Prida has a highly breakable glass jaw in the arena of Howard Studies, because he can’t seem to tell much … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Could The Academics Refurb de Camp? and Other Concerns of a REH Purist

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Don

A little over a year ago our occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno managed to slug his way through the collection of litcrit on Robert E. Howard, all by academics: Conan Meets the Academy, edited by Jonas Prida. And not too long after … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Literary Homes, on the Block

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Don

Surfing around in Bill Crider’s Pop Culture blog the other day, I noticed a link to an article about no less than eight literary homes being up for sale at the moment. I’d seen separate articles about Ray Bradbury’s long … Continue reading →

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