All Blog Posts Tagged 'hardboiled' (10)

Ellroy Queen: Megan Abbott’s Writing Life

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Added by Matt Rees on August 26, 2009 at 1:53am — No Comments

NPR on crime fiction

Wisconsin Public Radio airs a full hour discussing contemporary crime fiction. It's mainly an interview with the best crime fiction blogger, Peter Rozovsky, whose Detectives Beyond Borders is a fabulous read, full of information and sound opinions. The radio show focuses on "noir" -- which Peter defines more convincingly than anyone I've heard before as fiction in wh… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 7, 2009 at 1:05am — 1 Comment

“What happened to the third little pig, Daddy?”: Bob Burke on pig detectives and his Writing Life

Anyone who’s perused the crime fiction section of their bookstore knows t… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 14, 2009 at 8:59pm — 2 Comments

International Noir: Contrast to hardboiled environs gives Omar edge

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Added by Matt Rees on July 11, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Review: Crime fiction's first PI Pig

The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke published by The Friday Project i… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 10, 2009 at 1:43am — No Comments

NEW INTERVIEW POSTED

Jedidiah Ayres interviews me at Hardboiled Wonderland regarding the Hector Lassiter series, including PRINT THE LEGEND, coming early in 2010 from Minotaur Books. We also discuss ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE which was officially released this week by Bleak House Books. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 15, 2009 at 12:58am — No Comments

PulpFest 2009

Pulpfest 2009, a new and improved version of the venerable convention catering to fans and collectors of vintage popular fiction, will be held from Friday, July 31st, through Sunday, August 2nd, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. Sellers of pulp magazines, all-fiction digests, dime novels, and other collectible books and periodicals are already lining up for exhibit space, and the convention will be advertised and promoted e… Continue

Added by Mike Chomko on January 22, 2009 at 3:37pm — 3 Comments

Money Shot by Christa Faust

Wow, what a novel! On an average year, I'll pick up about 150 books, finishing about 70. Of those 70, a handful or two I'll give five out of five stars over at my LibraryThing account. Obviously, Money Shot got five stars. It's been almost a month since I finished Money Shot, and I can't stop thinking or talking about it. Faust's novel has it all: perfect pacing, dead-on dialogue, crystal-clear characters and ex… Continue

Added by Johnny Ostentatious on July 6, 2008 at 2:12am — 1 Comment

Before There Was Six Feet Under, There Was Deathryde: Rebel Without A Corpse

Question: You said you wrote this story originally as a script before HBO’s Six Feet Under and pitched the idea around Hollywood. Explain what happened and why you shelved the story? Michael P. Naughton: Call it Jungian synchronicity, collective unconsciousness or just plain old coincidence— or maybe not. I was working on the general story and wrote up a treatment for Deathryde and also read Jessica Mitford’s classic The American Way of Death Revisited. I was working with Jorge Garcia of Lost a… Continue

Added by Michael P. Naughton on July 2, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Five Noir Essentials

What Is Noir, Anyway? You know the drill - crime fiction comes in lots of flavors. Stuff like ‘cozy,’ ‘police procedural,’ ‘hardboiled,’ and ‘noir.’ Each of these sub-genres adheres to certain conventions in the presentation of character and subject matter. What follows is my take on the ‘noir’ tradition, including my personal interpretation of this small, but influential slice of the whole. With the rise of crime as a popular subject for fiction in the nineteenth century, it was natural that… Continue

Added by Paul McGoran on July 2, 2008 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments