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: Dave Van Ronk
Sinister Cinema: You’re Making the Movie Anyway?
After John Ridley won an Oscar a few weeks ago, I happened to surf into a post covering his activities — lured in by a tagline about a “feud” he had or was having with 12 Years a Slave director Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Film, News
Tagged Andre 3000, Dave Van Ronk, Dennis Quaid, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Joel & Ethan Coen, John Ridley, Oscar, R.J. Mischo, Steve McQueen (Brit), The Doors
Rediscovered: Block on Willeford/Block on Block
The recent mentions of Charles Willeford caused Terry Zobeck to prowl the net for awhile, where he discovered an article from yesteryear in which Lawrence Block remembered his meetings with Willeford — pretty interesting, especially the bits about eating cat, though … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco, Lit, News, Tour, Willeford
Tagged "Oreo Cookie Blues", "Teddy Bears' Picnic", 8 Million Ways to Die, A Necklace of Hickeys, Blanco's, Contrappasso, Dave Van Ronk, Ethan Iverson, Great American Music Hall, Greenwich Village, Grimhaven, Hoke Moseley, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel & Ethan Coen, Lawrence Block, Lonnie Mack, Miami Blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Terry Zobeck, The Dude
