The Strand Names the Year’s Best Mystery Fiction Audiobooks Building on its audiobook summer guide and reviews over the past twenty years, The Strand Magazine has announced nominees for the 2023 Strand Magazine Critics Audiobook Awards. These awards recognize excellence in the field of audiobook mystery fiction and are judged by a nine-person panel […]
Author Archives: Andrew Gulli
Things Get Ugly: The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale A Review by A.J. Devlin
THINGS GET UGLY The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale A Review by A.J. Devlin Things get ugly in this review of crime stories by Joe R. Lansdale. “You’re remembered for the rules you break.” That’s the infamous Douglas MacArthur quote used by Ben Affleck’s Nike co-founder Phil Knight in the excellent, recently […]
Top Ten Prohibition-Era Books
Top Ten Prohibition-Era Books by Katharine Schellman Prohibition looms large in the American imagination as a time of flappers, gangsters, jazz music, and illegal liquor. Its cultural staying power is partly thanks to the literature of the era. The novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Claud McKay, Nella Larson, and their contemporaries have […]