Noir, crime, and mystery short stories, scholarship, and so much more
INTERVIEW EXCERPT: “The book moves through different genres and, finally, through different historical moments, gradually emerging from the alternate world of movies into the worlds of movie-making and movie-watching, as if finally coming out of the theater after a day at the pictures.”….”
Read More “In the World of Pre-Code: Geoffrey O’Brien on Arabian Nights of 1934” (Excerpt)FICTION: “I’m a problem solver. I have a problem, and you have a problem. And now we’re helping each other solve our problems….”
Read More “A Bad Omen” by Nils GilbertsonPOETRY: “At the heart of the heat…/post-war hell….”
Read More “The Big Heat – From On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems” by Woody HautPOETRY: “If the Lonely Heart were merely depressed / They fixed that easy….”
Read More “Lonely Hearts Killers: From 1943 to 1947” by Dane InceTRUE CRIME/BIOGRAPHY: “Tierney is another picture altogether…. He is a man who has had his head handed to him.”
Read More “Lawrence Tierney: Face of a Cop Hater” by Burt KearnsPOETRY: “never very entertaining / they have the purpose of oblivion….”
Read More “Mid Dive” by Dane InceFICTION: “If the arc of history really bends toward justice, the contents of that steel box should belong to me—not to the invisible grandson with his fully-subsidized Silver Lake Craftsman and a ‘job’ writing experimental, bedpan-free screenplays the client cannot fucking stop talking about….”
Read More “O Captain My Captain” by Jo PerryNONFICTION: “Bizarre, absurdist, and disturbing, Pollack offers striking revelations…. He attempts to conjure the literary ghosts of a forgotten America.”
Read More “Donald Ray Pollack: A Grit-Lit Trailblazer” by William BlickFLASH FICTION: “Seeing the city isn’t necessary to know what is going down out there. Crime. He can smell it….”
Read More “Unfruitful Works of Darkness” by Ly FaulkINTERVIEW: “Bad things happen to the characters in the film. But the engagement with those bad things has motivated the characters to start writing their own stories (metaphorically speaking) rather than having their stories written for them….”
Read More Hope in Uncertainty: Filmmaker Doug Cunningham on Highway
