Book Review: The Made-Up Man, by Joe Scapellato It is hard to write a review about a book with as many layers as Joe Scapellato’s The Made-Up Man, Scapellato’s 2019 debut novel. Part noir, part bildungsroman, part psychological thriller, The Made-Up Man is something that is truly unique and stands on its own. The novel […]
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Interview with Josh Haven
Interview with Josh Haven TSM: Most of your novels have been inspired, to some degree or other, by real historical happenings. What do you find most intriguing or otherwise inspiring about the historical events and periods that you’ve drawn on in your works? JH: Well, for the newest book, The Siberia Job, the real story […]
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 […]