THINGS GET UGLY The Best Crime Stories of Joe R. Lansdale A Review by A.J. Devlin “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 released film AIR, about how the sneaker giant landed an endorsement deal with basketball […]
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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 […]
James Lee Burke and Lee Child take home Strand Lifetime Achievement Awards
James Lee Burke and Lee Child take home Strand Lifetime Achievement Awards Quarterly crime-fiction and mystery magazine The Strand has announced its list of nominees for the annual Strand Magazine Critics Awards. Authors Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, and John Searles headline this year’s nominees for best novel, while Dan Smetanka of Counterpoint Press receives the […]