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Tag Archives: Elmore Leonard
Posse McMillan: 5 Million Years Ago
Dennis McMillan phoned this morning and we caught up. After I got off the line I popped him the info on The Burnt Shadow and The Burnt Machens, where he played a role. Then he sent back this photo — … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Cowboy Elmore
Our pal Nathan Ward is keeping his hand in with this and that, after knocking out his bio of Hammett way back in 2015. Mean Streets Up and Downers no doubt will be interested in reading a blurb he just … Continue reading
Death Lit: Treasure Coast by Tom Kakonis
Today’s the day — official release date for the first new novel by Tom Kakonis to hit print in many years. I believe it also serves as the launch date for the first thirty or so titles from Brash Books, … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Brash Books, Criss Cross, Edward Bunker, Elmore Leonard, George Pelecanos, J. Kingston Pierce, James Ellroy, Jed Ayres, Rap Sheet, Tom Kakonis, Treasure Coast, Truman Copote
Sinister Cinema: Giamatti Is “Hoke”
Surfing around the net as I drink coffee and try to wake up, what ho! News that Charles Willeford’s existential cop Hoke Moseley will return with Paul Giamatti in the title role. At least for a pilot — with any … Continue reading
Posted in News, Willeford
Tagged "Hoke", Curtis Hanson, Elmore Leonard, Hoke Moseley, Justified, Paul Giamatti
Mort: Adios, Elmore
Just heard the news that Elmore Leonard passed away today — probably not a lot of titans left in the hard-boiled field, now. While technically I didn’t meet Elmore, I got to hear him do an interview, live, and once got … Continue reading
Rediscovered: More Contrappasso
Recently a 1977 issue of The Diversifier that I’d never seen before passed through my hands. It included a memoir of Edmond Hamilton by E. Hoffmann Price and a two-pager I hadn’t known about, in which Fritz Leiber discussed his tribulations … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged AHMM, Contrappasso, E. Hoffmann Price, Edmond Hamilton, Elmore Leonard, Farnsworth Wright, Firsts, Floyd Salas, Fritz Leiber, Harry Morris, Kindle, Matthew Asprey, Nyctalops, PW, The Cimmerian, The Diversifier, The Romantist, Weird Tales
Death Lit: The Torch is Passed, Kakonis to Levison
You have to poke around some on this site to find it, but if you do there’s an enthusiastic endorsement for the crime novels of Tom Kakonis. And I guess some people may surf right in to that page, because Kakonis’s … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News, REH, Willeford
Tagged Bukowski, Chester Himes, Criss Cross, Elmore Leonard, Floyd Salas, Gerald Kersh, How to Rob an Armored Car, Iain Levison, Jim Thompson, John Fante, Joseph Hirsch, Tom Kakonis, Truman Capote
Posse McMillan: A Hammett Shout-Out from Pelecanos
Our frequent Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck is back, making sure you don’t miss out on a Hammett plug in the new novel by George Pelecanos. Last time I saw George, we were in Philly, he’d snuck in on the edges … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, DMac, Film, Lit, News
Tagged Elmore Leonard, first editions, George Pelecanos, Noir Con, Richard Stark, Terry Zobeck
