News for week ending 2012-12-28 (open thread) […]
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News for week ending 2012-12-28 (open thread) […]
My original plan, as I mentioned when I reviewed the first two volumes in this terrifically fun combination of men’s adventure and horror, was not to review them all. I planned to review volumes that stuck out for one reason or another–an author of particular interest to the readers of The Violent […] News for week ending 2012-12-21 (open thread) […] …and me! This one’s so hot off the presses, the website isn’t even live. This is Noir Magazine, a new magazine for tablets. I downloaded it for my iPad today, the day of its debut. I just got the iPad a few weeks ago. I won it in a drawing of all things, the […] Above is the second trailer. Interesting that Payback is alluded to. Here’s a behind the scenes featurette. It’s mostly just footage from the trailers with some comments by director Taylor Hackford, Jason Statham, and Jennifer Lopez edited in. Nothing terribly insightful, but it’s only two and half minutes long. I got it from […] The Nolan Series, Part II By Mr. Dan Luft After Max Allan Collins published the first two books of his Nolan series, his publisher asked for a full-blown series. Collins then wrote another three volumes, but they would sit unpublished for years after Collins’s first publisher, Curtis, was purchased by Popular Library (I don’t […] News for week ending 2012-12-14 (open thread) […] Why is the cover of that bit of bureaucracy posted above? Because that’s the bit of bureaucracy that contains this: The hunter, by Richard Stark, pseud. New York, Pocket Books, 155 p. (Permabook edition, M 4272) © Richard Stark; 15Dec62; A607387 Fifty years ago today, a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered a […]
NB: A version of this post also appears on Existential Ennui. I’m in the midst of a series of posts on vintage softcovers over on Existential Ennui, and I’ve reached a pair of paperbacks I was basically badgered into buying by one of the regular commenters on both The Violent World of […] |
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