News for week ending 2013-08-30 (open thread)

News for week ending 2013-08-30 (open thread) […]

Parker Score: The Outfit

NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui.

Time to pull another Parker from the pile of eleven pristine Coronet paperback editions colloquially known as the Parker Mega Score. And this next one might be of particular interest to Violent World of Parker proprietor Trent, seeing as he doesn’t […]

News for week ending 2013-08-23 (open thread)

News for week ending 2013-08-23 (open thread) […]

Parker Score: The Steel Hit

NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui.

Plucked from atop the Parker Mega Score stack—i.e. that haul of British Coronet/Hodder Fawcett paperback editions of the Parker novels I recently acquired—comes The Steel Hit, Coronet’s title for the second Parker outing, The Man with the Getaway Face (the publisher […]

News for week ending 2013-08-16 (open thread)

News for week ending 2013-08-16 (open thread) […]

Parker Mega Score Prelude

NB: A version of this post also appears at Existential Ennui.

Good lord, has it really been nearly four months since I last posted something at TVWoP? Tsk, I dunno: anyone would think I’d recently become a father or something. (Let’s not get into the fact that I’ve managed about a dozen […]

News for week ending 2013-08-10

Dammit, the Twitter gadget didn’t work so I’m doing this manually.

In the Twitter gadget’s defense, I think I had one of the settings wrong. We’ll see if it fires off next week. In the meantime, here you go.

Fred Blosser guesting at Ed Gorman’s place–Confessions of a lapsed Parker fan (a piece I […]

Rest in peace, Karen Black

Sleep well.

 

Catching up on the news roundup: 6/8/13 – 8/3/13

Some of you may have noticed that the weekly news roundup posts, which I feed through Twitter, stopped on June 7. I never stopped linking news items through Twitter, as those that follow the account for this site (@worldofparker), surely noticed. The problem was that Twitter made some changes that […]