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Tag Archives: Terry Zobeck
Hammett: Almost Complete, If Spread Thin, Man. . .
Image above: one cover from the new set of eBooks collecting the Op short stories. My morning inbox featured Michael S. Chong sending along a link to an interview about the series. I’ve known for a few months that some … Continue reading
Hammett: 122 and Counting
Another birthday rolls around for Hammett — no. 122. Plus Christopher Lee and Vincent Price, Harlan Ellison and Linnea Quigley. Henry Kissinger. San Francisco detective Hal Lipset. And more. No cool birthday presents or news this year, that I know … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, News
Tagged Christopher Lee, Hal Lipset, Harlan Ellison, Henry Kissinger, Linnea Quigley, Terry Zobeck, Vincent Price
Rediscovered: Lovecraft and Race
Race Williams, that is. Terry Zobeck just updated me on his Pilgrim’s Progress through the Lovecraft reading list I gave him, and it turns out that my blurb for Them That Lives By Their Guns by Carroll John Daly sold … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News
Tagged Anthony Boucher, Carroll John Daly, Lovecraft, Race Williams, Terry Zobeck, Washington Independent Review of Books
Rediscovered: A Lovecraft Initiate Reading List
When Terry Zobeck told me he’d picked up a Complete Stories of H.P. Lovecraft, I quickly mocked up a reading list to sell him on The Old Gent — a list of thirteen stories and one dream fragment. I could … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Predictive Fate of Young Belknapius
Image above: Frank Belknap Long, left, and H.P. Lovecraft clowning around for the camera. Terry Zobeck just told me that he picked up a Complete Stories of Lovecraft on January 3, after seeing all the references to HPL here on … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Ben P. Indick, Frank Belknap Long, John D. Haefele, Lovecraft, Peter Cannon, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: Win Some Lose Some
How about the Hitchcockesque pic above to close out the year? Shot in the stairwell in the Mechanics’ Library after one of my talks about Hammett or noir. I feel noir just looking at it. And kind of dizzy, too. … Continue reading
Rediscovered: A 15 Year Anniversary
Say what you will about me, but I’m slow and steady — mostly slow. Or maybe lazy is a more accurate term. Sure, I can knock out some speed if needed, do a book in a couple of months. But … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Lit, News, Tour
Tagged Civil War, Eddie Muller, James Crumley, James Sallis, P.C. Doherty, PW, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: A Wandering Sentences Job
It was another case for Race Zobeck, Confidential Pure Text Dick. The email came winging in lazily over the transom. The client’s moniker was LaViolette. Marc LaViolette. At least that’s what he claimed. . . . He’d gotten bit by the … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Zobeck Goes Zombie
Not long after doing his review of Nathan Ward’s The Lost Detective here on These Mean Streets, our frequent Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck happened on a paying reviewing gig close to home — for his résumé, he popped in the … Continue reading
Hammett: Reviewer Remorse
Now Terry Zobeck is worried that his review of the new Hammett bio by Nathan Ward — because of a few quibbles he throws in — might not have given a fair account of how much he liked it: I hope … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Film, Frisco, Tour
Tagged 891 Post, Ace Atkins, Art Taylor, Bill Arney, Black Mask, Bogie, David Fechheimer, Jose Hammett, Nathan Ward, Red Harvest, Terry Zobeck, Washington Post
