How did last week go for you? The objectivity of time is losing its battle against the subjective interpretation of time during the quarantine, last week was both fast and slow for me. No prose recap this week, only links collected throughout the week. There are articles, book reviews, assorted other media links, and a few featured books. My one complaint — oh, I have many —, but my one complaint I’ll voice here was my inability to carve out some space to read more short stories. Maybe this week. Maybe not.
Articles
“Roller Derby and Mystery” by A.J. Devlin (Do Some Damage)
“Thrillers Bring The Light” by James Scott Bell (Kill Zone)
“25 Classic But Lesser-Known Crime Novels to Read in Lockdown, From King Dido to the Sam Dean Series” by Sarah Hughes (inews)
Next stop for S.A. Cosby, the cover of Rolling Stone (Booklist)
“Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele” by Alison Flood (The Guardian)
Submissions are open and what the editors are looking for (Longreads)
“‘This Is A Crazy Time, And It’s Okay If You’re Scared’ Says Man Burying Gagged Prisoner Alive” (The Onion)
“How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World” by MM Carrigan (Lit Hub)
More on Greil Marcus’s obsession with “The Great Gatsby” (The Baffler)
The First Two Pages: “Limited Liability” by Sarah Weinman (Art Taylor, Writer)
Otto Penzler’s out (The Crime Lady)
The beginnings of volume two is out now (The Exquisite Corpse)
“Murder in My High School” by K.A. Laity (Punk Noir)
Chapters by Ron Earl Phillips, Todd Morr, and Joseph S. Walker (The Exquisite Corpse)
“Robert Stone’s Bad Trips” by Scott Bradfield (The New Republic)
Submissions call for PM Press (Damppebbles)
Colman Keane interview Nigel Bird, author of “Let it Snow” (Col’s Criminal Library)
“Conflict Without Violence: How to Add More Depth To Your Fiction” by Autumn Christian (LitReactor)
“Tales From the Waffle House and other 24/7 Adventures” by Eve Fisher (SleuthSayers)
“A Day in the Life of a Detective” by Garry Rogers (Kill Zone)
I betcha that CrimeReads will continue to publish the old racist (Facebook)
Short Stories
“Against the Grain” by Rob McClure Smith (Tough)
Book Reviews
“Tommy Shakes” by Rob Pierce (All Due Respect Books) (Col’s Criminal Library)
“Rigged” by D.P. Lyle (Oceanview) (Lesa’s Book Critiques)
“The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga Press) (Malcolm Avenue Reviews)
“Done Deal” by Tony Berry (Lume) (Kevin’s Corner)
“Throwing Off Sparks” by Michael Pool (PI Tales) (Kevin’s Corner)
“Cold Water” by Tom Pitts (Down & Out Books) (Criminal Element)
“The Girl in the Video” by Michael David Wilson (Perpetual Motion Machine) (Do Some Damage)
“We Don’t Talk About Her” by Andersen Prunty (Self-Published) (Just A Guy Who Likes To Read)
“A.P.B.” by David Pedneau (Col’s Criminal Library)
Two opposing views of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins (Vox and NPR)
“Sorry for Your Trouble” by Richard Ford (Fiction Writers Review)
“Everything has Teeth” by Jeff Strand (Black Guys Do Read)
“Take Me Apart” By Sara Sligar (MCD) (LA Review of Books)
“Honky Tonk Samurai” by Joe Lansdale (Just A Guy Who Likes To Read)
“Dead Girl Blues” by Lawrence Block (Do Some Damage)
“A Rage at Sea / A Party Every Night” by Lorenz Heller (Bookgasm)
Podcasts
Podcast: “SILO” by Cameron Mount (EconoClash Review)
Podcast: Robin Burcell, ex-cop and writer, interviewed by Frank Zafiro (Wrong Place, Write Crime)
Podcast: Kimberly McCreight, Tom Pitts, Mary Keliikoa (Writer Types)
Other Media
Photographs: Big Lonely City #101 (Fragments of Noir)
Music: Drug dealers put up George Jones reel-to-reel tapes as bail decades ago (Saving Country Music)
TV Review: “The Cry” (BOLO Books)
Illustrations: Thomas Ott (Fragments of Noir)
Music: “Shelved: The Misfits’ 12 Hits From Hell” by Tom Maxwell (Longreads)
Photographs: Mosiac Noir #25 (Fragments of Noir)
Music: “Was 1973 the Greatest Year for Roots Music?” by Amos Perrine (No Depression)
Featured Books
“Raise the Blade” by Tess Makovesky (Amazon)
“Cold Water” by Tom Pitts (Down & Out Books)
“Benediction for a Thief” by LA Sykes (Close to the Bone)
“Slow Bear” by Anthony Neil Smith (Fahrenheit Press)
“A Rage at Sea / A Party Every Night” by Lorenz Heller (Stark House Press)
“Slow Down” by Lee Matthew Goldberg (All Due Respect Books)
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