
Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. -

The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



-

Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
-
Tag Archives: D.S. Black
Frisco Beat: At Least One Guy Hits the Century Mark
Doing a quick check of the net, it looks as if Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 years old today. The event could have slipped past my radar, except a few days ago I got a deluxe one-sheet poem from D. S. … Continue reading
Posted in Frisco, Lit, News
Tagged City Lights, D.S. Black, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nancy Peters
Rediscovered: A Mil Plus Will Get You Boucher Central
Wooden crates house the library of William Anthony Parker White — better known by the penname Anthony Boucher to the mystery-reading world — in the upstairs office area of his longtime Berkeley home. D. S. Black of the Bancroft Library just … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Anthony Boucher, Bancroft Library, D.S. Black, literary homes, Literary Plaques





