REVOLVER Duane Swierczynski July 19, 2016 Mulholland Books A policeman gunned down in a bar. A homicide detective stalking an ex-con. A forensic scientist who can't let the murder go. All members of the same family separated by 50 years and compelled by a murder that...
DODGERS Bill Beverly April 2016 Crown The first allowance-money purchase I can recall was a cassette copy of Run-DMC’s Raising Hell as a second-grader in some certainly long-defunct chain store. I can’t quite explain what led an eight year-old in small-town East Texas...
“You make a threatening move I’ll shoot you through the heart.” Elmore Leonard wrote some of the classic crime novels of the twentieth century. Notably inspired by Higgins’s THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, (1972), Leonard was an adept dialogue writer and master of the...
DISCO'S OUT, MURDER'S IN Heath Mattioli and David Spacone Illustrated by Raymond Pettibon 2015 Feral House Some people identify with being Punk or Metal. I fall into the Punk category. As far back as I can remember, Punk Rock has been the dominating soundtrack of my...
Swiss Army Man Written and Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schenert Starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe play two young men who turn up on a desert island although Radcliffe's no more than a flatulent corpse when the film begins....
Interviews are a strange thing to behold. I've interviewed writers, which is easy. You can sit down with a guy like Richard Kadrey and ask if he prefers Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone. Or a guy like Todd Robinson and ask about the benefits using a Sharpie as a weapon....
