Noir, crime, and mystery short stories, scholarship, and so much more
REVIEW ESSAY: “A pioneering influence on genre novels with literary and philosophical aspirations….”
Read More “On the Darkside: Horace McCoy’s I Should’ve Stayed Home” by William BlickEXCERPT: “Draws from Dick’s inner life [as part of] a literary hauntology that translates personal trauma into theological revelation and recasts fiction as a laboratory for metaphysical examination….”
Read More “‘The Schizoid Man’: on Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (1977; writ. 1973)” by D. Harlan WilsonREVIEW: “Corbijn and company have crafted an engaging, surprisingly funny examination of how fiction allows you to experience the life or death (or sex, for that matter) you think you deserve….”
Read More “Preview – In Ripley’s Shoes: Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder” by Thomas M. PuhrINTERVIEW: “I’ve played some of those characters that are on the borderline. They are good/bad at the same time and have an edge to them…. I learned to like film noir over time….”
Read More “The Danger of the Quiet Man – Dolph Lundgren on Film Noir Parallels and Dolph: Unbreakable” by Jonathan MonovichBOOK REVIEW: “The Bloody Spur is hardboiled noir, and pulpish, yet it is not quite pulp. It is a smart, artfully crafted book that contains salacious and sordid aspects of pulp which make it something of a curio….”
Read More “Hold the Presses: The Bloody Spur/While the City Sleeps (1953)” by William BlickRETROSPECTIVE: “Systemic evolution is a theme Mann explores not only in the historical Public Enemies, but in his prior crime drama Miami Vice (2006), where present-day detectives track drug cartels on a fast moving, transnational scale, and in his subsequent work Blackhat (2015), a cyber-crime thriller where crime has moved beyond the physical and into the digital realm of computer hackers and the global infrastructures they target.”
Read More “Michael Mann’s Systemic Evolution: Public Enemies” by Anees ArefNOVEL EXCERPT: “As I ducked my head below the roofline, the driver, Chuy Muro, pulled a cut-down 12-gauge from a clip under the dash, launching butterflies in my stomach the size of fruit bats. When he laid the shotgun down on the passenger seat, I let out my breath, hoping I was off the hook….”
Read More “‘Lots of Secrets’: from The Killing of Chuy Muro” by Lance MasonBOOK REVIEW: “Mystery Writers Grandmaster Max Allan Collins Publishes a Sequel with Hard Case Crime, while Field Notes Offers a Replica of the 1943 Enlisted Issue of Hammett….”
Read More “The Maltese Falcon Returns, as a Sequel and a Replica of the 1943 Enlisted Edition” by William BlickBLOGS: Channel Academic features the book series Crime Classics, shorter monographs on single titles featuring the theme in film, television, fiction, and other media, with a close study of the work’s importance to genre and the history of its media form…Debut title: Kiss Me Deadly by Woody Haut….
Read More Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media, Featuring Crime Classics SeriesBOOK REVIEW: “Profound, obscure, and a thorough delight to read for its thought-provoking allusions. And if you think you are lost in the language, pay heed to his gentle reminder….”
Read More “‘A Scream Pulled Me from Sleep’: Eric Pankey’s The History of the Siege” by Charles Rammelkamp
