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Tour: Fritz Leiber on Sunday October 28

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Don

I’m running late, White Rabbit-style, so let’s make this post all business and even skip the illos — if you want to see lots of cool shots of Fritz, hop over to Will Hart’s Flickr archive, especially nice for the annotated … Continue reading →

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Tour: Fritz Leiber!

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Don

 Okay, before I head out the door on another trip, yes, I am planning a Fritz Leiber Tour for Sunday October 28th — details to follow. I figure it won’t begin any earlier than noon, no later than 3 p.m. … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: 19 Minutes with Fafhrd and the Mouser, and Fritz

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Don

Over on The Pulp.Net I just gave Bill Lampkin the okay to put up an article I did back in 2014 for his zine The Pulpster — a good one, if I say so myself (hell, even definitive), on the … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: On the Mean Streets with Fritz and Sam

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Don

Don’t think that during my deep hibernation of Xmas/The Onset of Winter I did nothing at all, even if  doing nothing was the prevailing theme. I remembered that I never polished off the Sherlock Holmes stories decades ago, stopping after the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Fritz Cracks Jeopardy!

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Don

As I was just reporting, Jeopardy! didn’t have any Hammett clews in March — but they snuck in another Up and Down These Mean Streets favorite that was much more of a surprise. March 31, snowballing toward Final Jeopardy, with a … Continue reading →

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Mort: John Jakes

Posted on March 20, 2023 by Don

It’s time to mention his name in Atlantis. Brian Leno popped the news to me that John Jakes died Saturday March 18, age 90. Jakes was one of the most commercially successful writers to emerge from the paperback originals and … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: More Starrett and a Williamson — Plus a Margo

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Don

Awhile back I was chatting with Brian Leno about the great Chicago bookman Vincent Starrett, and mentioned that my preferred state for his Books About Books would be to have a copy (in jacket, nice condition, and so on) inscribed … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Sidney-Fryer to Sabato

Posted on June 29, 2021 by Don

The month kicked off with talk about Donald Sidney-Fryer’s book Songs and Sonnets Atlantean and we may as well whip out a Worm Ouroborus move by going out with yet more DSF and S&SA to sign off June. Martin Stever … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Charles Saunders Publication History Moment

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Don

Very casually, I’ve begun to poke around looking for content for a LitCrit MegaPack or two, starting by going through Word doc files to see what I have available. Many of my essays pre-date Word doc’ing (and will require the … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Portable Storage Four

Posted on November 21, 2020 by Don

But for being buried under the sprint to the finish on Haefele’s Lovecraft: The Great Tales the last few weeks or months, I would have mentioned the fact that Bill Breiding pubbed another ish of his new zine on August … Continue reading →

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