A personal note

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Donald Westlake.

The new year marks the one-year anniversary of the relaunch of The Violent World of Parker. Although the relaunch wasn’t official until a month later, January 31st, I think of it as being born when I got word of Westlake’s […]

News for week ending 2009-12-26

Pulp Serenade–An interview with Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai about The Adventures of Gabriel Hunt: http://bit.ly/604sdA # Pluck You, Too!–A detailed look at Stephen Frear’s Westlake-scripted The Grifters: http://www.pluckyoutoo.com/2008/09/grifters.html #

Nackles: A Christmas story by Donald Westlake

Note: I believe this story to be in the public domain. If it is not, please let me know and I will remove it from the site.

Nackles

By Donald Westlake (writing as Curt Clark) Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1964

Posted by Trent on December 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Westlake Short Stories | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Merry Christmas!

“Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in […]

Cute fan ad for Darwyn Cooke’s Parker books

Have “cute” and “Parker” ever been in the same sentence before? Well, they’re in the same sentence now: This fan-made ad for Darwyn Cooke’s Parker books is cute.

I recognize Wolverine and Jonah Hex, but who is the fella with the bandages?

Via Almost Darwyn Cooke’s Blog.

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“Draw Parker” contest winners

I somehow missed the announcement of the winners of the “Draw Parker” contest over at Almost Darwyn Cooke’s Blog. I’ve highlighted second place (by the appropriately named Brandon Parker) with this post, as I presciently highlighted the winner in my initial post. To see third through fifth place, you’ll have to click […]

More cover translation help needed

The great thing about having a major new search engine to work with (Bing) is that I’m coming up with a whole bunch of new results on my image searches. I just found this page, for example, which linked to the image above and the image below.

The first […]

News for week ending 2009-12-18

From the archives: Donald Westlake at NYT–A Pseudonym Returns from an Alter-Ego Trip, With New Tales to Tell: http://bit.ly/1nexQe # The remake of The Stepfather will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 2/9/10: http://bit.ly/6Fg1L6 #

New Italian cover of The Hunter added

Thanks to reader Patrick, who, like me, wonders what the hell is going on in the cover photo.

A literal translation of the title and any other information on this edition (year of publication, &c.) would be most welcome.

Update: Reader Charlie informs me that this is actually […]

Finnish Parker covers!

I just stumbled across this stash of Finnish Parker covers. Above is the cover of Plunder Squad, which I reviewed yesterday.

If any of you out there are reasonably fluent in Finnish, I could use some help. I’d like literal English translations of the titles at a minimum, and translations […]