All Blog Posts Tagged 'allan' (5)

Good Reads for July

(Also posted in One Bite at a Time.) Swag, Elmore Leonard - John McFetridge cites this book almost as often as Toronto is colder than Miami. Since John is mistaken about such things even less frequently than that, I finally got around to reading it, and he's right again. Classic Leonard, with two criminals who aren't as smart as they think they are. The dialog is spot on, and the story is a little more tightly plotted than is Leo… Continue

Added by Dana King on August 2, 2009 at 4:47am — No Comments

TOWER INTERVIEW #1 WITH KEN BRUEN NOW POSTED

To promote the autumn release of Busted Flush Press' new Ken Bruen/Reed Farrel Coleman collaboration, TOWER, I agreed to interview Ken, Reed and the novel's editor, Allan Guthrie. The first of the three interviews, this one with Ken, is now available HERE. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on June 30, 2009 at 1:25am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #8, MAX ALLAN COLLINS

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis about the craft of writing. During the next few weeks, I’m sharing a little bit about each of the 16 writers featured in… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 22, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON ROGUE MALES

Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald. Bleak House Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60648-036-6; paper $14.95 ISBN 978-1-932557-45-9 A fascinating follow-up to the 2006 Art in the Blood dialogue with leading crime writers, this collection by journalist and fiction writer McDonald (Head Games) underlines the “rogue male” theme by putting some of the most influential crime fiction wizards under the spotlight. Among the personal… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Tapping: A Blog Carnival for Edgar A. Poe and his 200th Birthday

We celebrate the 200th Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe - also in Germany. I've just started a - > Blog Carnival. How important was/is Poe for detective fiction, what saying other authors about his life and work, and do you still read Poe? You could write a blogpost in english (or any other language) and give me a short hint. So I will link all the post about Poe until January, 19th, 2009 - his birthday… Continue

Added by Ludger on December 6, 2008 at 12:58am — No Comments