Category Archives: Lit

Hammett: More Book Reviewing

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Don

And Terry Zobeck is back, with more on Hammett’s history as a book reviewer: A couple of weeks back I told you about a new web site containing scans of the book reviews Hammett wrote for The Forum and the Saturday Review … Continue reading →

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Hammett: If They Don’t Hang You

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Don

Eighty-two years ago today, Alfred A. Knopf released the hardcover first edition of The Maltese Falcon —- as I sometimes say as an aside on the tour, the sickest Valentine’s Day offering ever. Yeah, there’s romance. Definitive murder-shadowed noir romance. Just a … Continue reading →

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Hammett: “Bodies Piled Up”

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Don

  After a hiatus during which he obviously spent some safari time in the pulp jungle hunting down rare and elusive pulps, Terry Zobeck is back to let us know the extent of the editing done to yet another Op tale … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Book Reviewer

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Don

How about we kick off February with The Return of Terry Zobeck? Terry took a little time off there from blogging (hey, so did I), but he’s back with another exploration down an interesting byway of Hammett studies — the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Poets Gawsworth and Maclaren

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Don

Recently I heard from Lucilla Maclaren Spillane, who was looking around the Web for Steve Eng. Steve, if you recall, is the guy who brought M. P. Shiel fully to my attention, and completely sold me on John Gawsworth as a … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: 106 and Counting

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Don

Birthday 106 for Robert E. Howard today. Almost 76 years since he committed suicide on June 11, 1936. And his name lives on. Not bad for a writer who plied his trade in the pulps and didn’t see a single … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: A Fante Salon

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Don

Just got word that a new literary salon has scheduled its first meeting for Monday January 23 in Musso & Frank — you know, I’m half-thinking about going, if not to this one, then to a later session. What a great place to stage … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Into the West

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Don

Sometime after midnight, as 2011 had slipped away and the New Year had begun, I did a quick check of email and found a barrage of notes telling me that Glenn Lord had passed away on the last day of the vanished … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: More on Jim Thompson

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Don

Just got an email from Steve Snow about the burst of Jim Thompson-related posts I did in October. Steve writes: I enjoyed your Hammett site, and wanted to pass on a few notes about Jim Thompson. He lived at 1922 North Whitley … Continue reading →

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891 Post: A Noir Advertisement

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Don

I got a Xmas card from Bill Arney — a.k.a. The Voice of Noir — which asked if I had seen the trailer for the tenth anniversary of the Noir City film festival. Turns out it was shot in Sam Spade’s … Continue reading →

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