Tag Archives: Nathan Ward

Rediscovered: Biography Month Once More on These Mean Streets

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Don

What ho, it is Biography Month once again on Up and Down These Mean Streets — last time I did one was July 2012. The new bio of Jim Tully was a big excuse that time, and no doubt the … Continue reading →

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Tour: For September and October

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Don

Okay, before the promised El Niño rains start crashing down this winter — if they start crashing down — I’m giving the gumshoe-wearing public a chance to walk the Hammett walk to their hearts’ content. In September anyone with $20 in … Continue reading →

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Tour: Sundays, August 9 and August 23

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Don

In addition to a few groups by appointment penciled into the schedule this month, anyone interested with $20 to spare and around four hours to kill is welcome to show up for walks on Sunday August 9 or Sunday August … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: A Big New Wrinkle in Mapback Thinking

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Don

Got another note from Nathan Ward — which as an aside, reminds me that maybe when his new bio of Hammett hits the stands later this year, I could do another Biography Month celebration here on Up and Down These … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Trouble on Wall Street

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Don

Sam Spade said, “I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.” And that’s what he’s got. Nathan Ward — whose upcoming new biography of Hammett is being proofread and copyedited and put through the hoops right now — just popped … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: Becoming an Instant Icon

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Don

Just got a note from Nathan Ward, who is in LA doing more on-the-ground research for his biography of Dashiell Hammett — needless to say, as soon as that one is available I’ll alert everyone who surfs Up and Down These Mean … Continue reading →

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Noir: A Fast Dose of Bleak for Monday

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Don

Got a note from Nathan Ward to tell me that he took a little break from working on his new bio of Hammett to knock out a 750 worder for Akashic’s “Mondays Are Murder” web featurette. His gritty excursion into … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Belated Birthday

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Don

Yeah, yeah, I missed a whole month of potential blog posts, and when I was MIA from the web on Hammett’s birthday, some people even got worried enough to make sure I hadn’t died quietly on the side. Nope, just sidetracked … Continue reading →

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Hammett: “Great Stuff”

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Don

Last Wednesday I got together for lunch with Nathan Ward, who was in Frisco doing research for his upcoming biography of Hammett — from birth up till around 1933, I think it is, with heavy concentration on the detective and pulp-writing … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Another Bio in the Works (Plus More on John Carter of Mars)

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Don

Just got a note from Nathan Ward, author of the quite hard-boiled Dark Harbor, a history of the head-busting and mayhem that ruled the New York docks and provided the back story for Brando to chew the scenery in On the … Continue reading →

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