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A miscellany of links: The Killing of the Linkers

September 10, 2008 By: Brian Category: Uncategorized

-RIP Gregory Mcdonald

-ADrian Mckinty on Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

-Tom Piccirilli does a re-read of The Resurrectionist by Jack O’Connell

-Thomas Disch remberance

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BOOK REVIEWS

-The Part-Timers by Steve Sarver

-The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps; American Pulp; Pulp Fiction

-The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

-The Captain Must Die by Robert Colby

-Breaking Cover by JD Rhoades

MOVIE/TV/DVD REVIEWS

-Generation Kill

-Blue Murder set 3

BLIPS (short burst reviews)

-No Country For Old Men

MISC.

-“In Brazil, they segregate their prisons according to gang membership. No exceptions. Not even for individuals who in fact are not members of any gang. How does that work? Easy. Upon being admitted to the prison system, unaffiliated prisoners are required to join a gang.”

-“It is meaningless, I’ve said, to talk of “content” in opposition to “style”, but this is not to say that “content” is a useless term. “Content”, in its general use, is largely just an informal term for the sense encoded in a representative articulation, constructed from the denotations of its words and the grammatical relationships between them; it is the assertion being made as regards a subject (context in Jakobson’s model). As such, it might well be contrasted with the sort of sense that can be made of articulations with other functions, articulations that are not targeted on a subject and trying to communicate about it.”

-“Mockney for Mods - how to speak the lingo. Everyone knows that the first language of mods is chirpy “mockney” banter, whether you hail from Mile End or Monte Carlo, Bethnal Green or Boston, Walthamstow or Washington DC. To that end Uppers are supplying this handy guide, and glossary of terms”

-“Every character must have a want and need. The most critical are the ones for our protagonists and antagonists. But I think that even the smallest, one-time, walk-ons must be motivated. If we determine the goals of every characters, we will have an easier time writing them, and the reader will have a more distinct picture of the character in their minds.”

-Pg. 99 Jt Ellison’s 14

-Crime fiction profiles in the press

-DVD rteleased for Sept. 9th

-Some pulptastic Gold Medal Covers

-Michael Connelly reveals his sartorial side

-My Book, My Movie: Into Shadows by Shirley Wells

-Interview with Rafe McGregor

-Publisher Imprint Report Card Part V

-JD Rhoades on WUNC

-“You had to know that Charles Willeford just did not care to write the kind of books everybody else wanted to write.”

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