The Gutter’s own Keith Allison writes about Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer and Spillane’s I, The Jury at Cocktails and Capers! “In I, the Jury, Mike Danger became Mike Hammer, a war veteran and ex-cop (like every detective of the era) with a chip on his shoulder and a […]
A whole lot of things are coming into the public in January! “The Great American Novel enters the public domain on January 1, 2019—quite literally. Not the concept, but the book by William Carlos Williams. It will be joined by hundreds of thousands of other books, musical scores, […]
At the Paris Review, Megan Abbott writes about Dorothy B. Hughes and American noir. “Reading Dorothy B. Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as […]
Check out this free sampler from Fox Spirit Books featuring two stories from the Gutter’s own Carol! Just click through, scroll down to Fearless Genre Warriors and use the password “FoxTweets” in the Twitter giveaway section. (If you know the passwords for the other sections, feel free to […]
Friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman briefly reviews the new book by the Gutter’s own Keith Allison, Cocktails and Capers: Cult Cinema, Cocktails, Crime and Cool! Go on over and look and then make sure to pick up Keith’s book, too!
At Lithub, Viv Groskop writes about Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. “Written in the 1930s but not published until the 1960s, The Master and Margarita is the most breathtakingly original piece of work. Few books can match it for weirdness. The devil, Woland, comes to Moscow with […]
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