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Post-traumatic noir part 2: Who’ll Stop The Rain
A while ago on this blog I wrote about the 1981 Ivan Passer movie, Cutter’s Way. Based ased on the 1976 cult novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, it’s one of the best crime films to deal with...
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Pulp Friday: interview with Iain Mcintyre, author, Sticking it to the Man!
Today’s Pulp Friday is a fascinating interview with Melbourne-based social historian Iain McIntyre, author of a new book, Sticking it to the Man! Pop, Protest and Black Fiction of the Counterculture,...
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My year in books: Tom Vater
I’m pleased to welcome Bangkok-based journalist and writer Tom Vater as the next contributor to the ‘my year in books’ series. Tom is the author of The Cambodian Book of the Dead, a great hard-boiled...
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Post traumatic noir – a note on the passing of Robert Stone
The death of US writer Robert Stone on the weekend has drawn me out of the break I planned on posting on this site over January. Stone was the author of two tremendous works of neo-noir fiction, both...
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Post-traumatic noir part 2: Who’ll Stop The Rain
A while ago on this blog I wrote about the 1981 Ivan Passer movie, Cutter’s Way. Based ased on the 1976 cult novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg, it’s one of the best crime films to deal with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pulp Friday: interview with Iain Mcintyre, author, Sticking it to the Man!
Today’s Pulp Friday is a fascinating interview with Melbourne-based social historian Iain McIntyre, author of a new book, Sticking it to the Man! Pop, Protest and Black Fiction of the Counterculture,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My year in books: Tom Vater
I’m pleased to welcome Bangkok-based journalist and writer Tom Vater as the next contributor to the ‘my year in books’ series. Tom is the author of The Cambodian Book of the Dead, a great hard-boiled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Post traumatic noir – a note on the passing of Robert Stone
The death of US writer Robert Stone on the weekend has drawn me out of the break I planned on posting on this site over January. Stone was the author of two tremendous works of neo-noir fiction, both...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My top 10 books of 2015
It’s time for my annual top 10 reads for the year. In no particular order they are as follows: Bad Penny Blues, Cathi Unsworth Bad Penny Blues kicks off in London in the early 1960s. A young police...
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