A miscellany of links: The Links Left Behind
-The British Library is set to release a CD set of rare recordings from 57 British and American authors which includes Raymond Chandler drunkenly slurring his way through an interview with Ian Fleming
-I’d take this class, sign me up: “Finally, I decided to let the course be about the intersections of murder, madness, and mayhem, and to take a particularly socio-political approach,”
BOOK REVIEWS
-Redneck Riviera: Armadillos, Outlaws and the Demise of an American Dream by Denis Covington
-Playing Dead by Allison Brennan
-Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
-The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
MOVIE/TV/DVD REVIEWS
-Ice Cube to write and produce proposed NBC cop show
-Templar: Honor Among Thieves sounds interesting
-The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series
MISC.
-The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry sounds interesting
-John Scalzi tells you why you need an agent
-Page 69 of Jeri Westerson’s Veil of Lies
-Declan brings word of “an exhibition which ‘pays homage to the visual composition of film noir, psychological thrillers of the forties and the visual literacy of detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming’ opening tomorrow night in Dublin”. Lucky bastard.
-Criminal Class Review featuring “intense, gritty, apathetically toned fiction and spiteful poetry” sounds pretty cool. So how can I get a copy?
-And finally, it’s down to “The Wire” so make sure you vote:
October 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
“-I’d take this class, sign me up: “Finally, I decided to let the course be about the intersections of murder, madness, and mayhem, and to take a particularly socio-political approach,””
I’d take it, too. Those of us who take our crime fiction seriously ought to follow the progress of the course, though one hesitates to speculate about whether it has a fieldwork component. Thanks.
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