Category Archives: DMac

Rediscovered: Understudy for Love/Death

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Don

In other Willeford News, Hard Case Crime is poised for the official release of Understudy for Death in about a month — first time Willeford’s 1961 novel Understudy for Love has seen reprint. If you’ve never been willing to fork over … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Little Xmas Present for Hardboiled Fans

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Don

The December 18 ish of Publishers Weekly features an interview by our pal Patrick “Catfish” Millikin as advance promo for Kent Anderson’s February release, Green Sun. Put that one on your hardboiled shopping list for 2018. Kent is one of … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: Big Sale at Kayo; or, The Adventure of the French Translator

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Don

Yesterday I met up with noir writer Kent Harrington from Posse McMillan and Nordine Haddad, Kent’s French translator who is in the burg for a little visit before he and Kent wander off to NoirCon in Philly in a week … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Derleth and Little Reviews

Posted on August 21, 2016 by Don

If you know much about August Derleth, you know he made his rep equally between writing for pulps such as Weird Tales and doing the more artsy wordplay for Little Reviews — eventually he even combined the two fields of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Little Xmas Present for Hardboiled Fans

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Don

When I did my PW interview with James Crumley back in 2001 I only had a certain word count I could squeeze in. I moved some of the Qs & As back and forth for flow. And we had one … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A 15 Year Anniversary

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Don

Say what you will about me, but I’m slow and steady — mostly slow. Or maybe lazy is a more accurate term. Sure, I can knock out some speed if needed, do a book in a couple of months. But … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Leigh Brackett at 100

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Don

Leigh Brackett would have been 26 the day Pearl Harbor came under attack, and today is birthday 100. My pal Morgan Holmes mentioned the anniversary to me the other day, saying various people were doing an array of blog posts … Continue reading →

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Tombstone: Blackjack Jerome — or, What I Did on Hammett’s 121st Birthday

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Don

Earlier this year Fondas Ladis from Greece was in the burg, researching a biography of John “Blackjack” Jerome. Blackjack was a Greek, who among other activities became famous as a strikebreaker, in San Francisco and around the country. Tradition has … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: A Willeford Blurb — For Haefele?!?

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Don

Image above — Haefele’s Heretics rolling into Lovecraft Town on a convoy of Shermans. Locked and loaded. Yep, every time I pick up the new trade paperback of John D. Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos all I can … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: “Say It Simple”

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Don

  And today Michael S. Chong returns, with the third entry in his series of “lost” Willeford bits scattered through the newspapers of North America — this time an item about Willeford’s interest in playing around with big, fancy words … Continue reading →

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