Saturday, December 31, 2011
Book Note: Dave Dickerson, Japanese Serial Killers: True Tales of 13 Notorious Murderers (2011)
Friday, December 30, 2011
Book Review: Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note (2003-2006)
Monday, December 26, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, December 19, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, December 12, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, December 5, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Book Review: Gil Brewer, The Hungry One (1966)
Herb Forrest and his wife Wilma are traveling to Tampa, where a new job awaits Herb. They stop for the night in perhaps the world’s sleaziest motel, and, in the novel’s most memorable scene, find their room invaded by Danny and Joy, a couple of speedfreaks. Danny/Joy kidnap Herb/Wilma and force them to participate in the fake kidnapping of Joy, an effort to get a suitcase of loot from Joy’s rich father. On the whole, not bad when one is running out of Brewer novels to read. Grade: C+
Monday, November 21, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, November 14, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Book Review: Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Monday, October 31, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Book Review: Richard Stark, Plunder Squad (1972)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Book Review: Koushun Takami, Battle Royale (1999)
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, October 10, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Hitomi KaneharaSnakes and Earrings2004(trans. by David James Karashima)
Friday, October 7, 2011
Book Review: Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes and Earrings (2004)
Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Book Review: Richard Stark, Lemons Never Lie (1971)
Friday, September 30, 2011
Book Review: Richard Stark, Slayground (1971)
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Book Review: Richard Stark, Deadly Edge (1971)
Monday, September 26, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Book Review: Richard Stark, The Blackbird (1969)
Book Review: Gil Brewer, Memory of Passion (1962)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, September 12, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
A New Gil Brewer Story!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
Monday, August 22, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Book Review: Gil Brewer, A Taste for Sin (1961)
Monday, July 25, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Book Review: Gil Brewer, Appointment in Hell (1961)
Monday, July 18, 2011
Pulp Poem of the Week
The halls twisted like a digestive tract
through the spacious house.
They hadn’t been designed to be complicated—
at least I thought they hadn’t—
and yet at each intersection I found myself
losing track of where I was.
As I walked along the black floorboards,
I started to feel the illusion of the halls
languidly moving
like the peristalsis of the intestines.
Otsuichi
Black Fairy Tale
2004
(translated by Nathan Collins)