Somebody’s Done For by David Goodis (Excerpt)

NOVEL EXCERPT: “What it all amounts to, he told himself, is you’re not in shape for a deal like this. You get involved in this sort of thing, you should be properly prepared. I mean mentally, too. It’s a cinch you’re not prepared mentally, because now I’d say you’re just about ready to give up….”

“In the World of Pre-Code: Geoffrey O’Brien on Arabian Nights of 1934” (Excerpt)

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.”….”

“A Bad Omen” by Nils Gilbertson

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….”

“The Big Heat – From On Dangerous Ground: Film Noir Poems” by Woody Haut

POETRY: “At the heart of the heat…/post-war hell….”

“Lonely Hearts Killers: From 1943 to 1947” by Dane Ince

POETRY: “If the Lonely Heart were merely depressed / They fixed that easy….”

“Lawrence Tierney: Face of a Cop Hater” by Burt Kearns

TRUE CRIME/BIOGRAPHY: “Tierney is another picture altogether…. He is a man who has had his head handed to him.”

“Mid Dive” by Dane Ince

POETRY: “never very entertaining / they have the purpose of oblivion….”

“O Captain My Captain” by Jo Perry

FICTION: “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….”

“Donald Ray Pollack: A Grit-Lit Trailblazer” by William Blick

NONFICTION: “Bizarre, absurdist, and disturbing, Pollack offers striking revelations…. He attempts to conjure the literary ghosts of a forgotten America.”