The Unscratchables: Shaggy-Dog Noir
‘Me and Hitch’: Evan Hunter remembers Alfred Hitchcock
Al Columbia’s high-octane nightmare fuel
A Fifth of Adams
With special guest star …

2010

July

• Let’s send good thoughts

January

• Times change, but the slush pile endures

• Let’s really be honest about blog reviewing

2009

March

• Writer as performing flea

February

• Some free zombie goodness

2008

September

• Encountering Mass Historia

May

• Not thrilled with thrillers

February

• The true Shavian

2006

December

• Conan the Scrivener

November

• Why ‘Hannibal Rising’ Will Blow Chunks

• Margaret Atwood, Stripper

• The Knife That Killed The OJ Book

• Speedlinks: Laura Lippman Interviews

• William Styron Died

October

• Paperback Writer’s E-book Challenge

• Just An Old-Fashioned Mystery Contest

• Beautiful, Beautiful Books

September

• Think of it as ‘Where’s Waldo’ for intellectuals

• Bookninja on a tear

• Speedlinking: Books Edition

August

• Speedlinking: Books Edition

• Spies Wanted: No Experience Required

• The Wrong Writing Question

July

• One More Post About Mickey Spillane

• John Updike, Larry Flynt and Sex

• Carl Hiassen: Who Needs To Make It Up?

• In Praise of Mike Hammer’s Creator

June

• Konrath hits the road

• Writing Out of Character

• BMW’s short stories

• Pulp Fiction Resurrection?

• “C” Is For Critic

• American Literature in a Box

• Anonymous Lawyer’s Anonymous Site

• Death comes for Pterry’s father

May

• Ray Banks Sells Out

• Decoding Da Vinci Code

• Paperback blogging

April

• Dan Brown, call your Russian lawyer

• Alison Kent’s “Deep Breath” contest

• When I grow up, I want to be Alan Bennett

• Just in case you don’t have enough lit blogs to read

• The mystery novel today

• The box that contains multitudes

March

• Free book: Michael Allen’s “How and why Lisa’s Dad got to be famous”

• “Author! Screenwriter!”

• Holy titles, Batman

• Received in the mail

• Instead of reading this blog, you should be

• The Cat Who . . . . is still going strong

• More book coverage at Inquirer

• Montgomery chops at ‘Big Bamboo’

• Quiet Storm blows

• Internet’s cultural wasteland

• Philly boy makes good

• Then again, maybe the book sucks

• The savaging of Jeffrey Archer

February

• Beach reads from St. Martin’s Press

• Bad day for fiction: Busch, Butler

• Another serial killer book

• Mary Higgins Clark accused of stealing

• ‘Solomon & Lord’ author interviewed

January

• But Does He Return Her Calls?

• Open A Bottle For This Contest Winner

• Sarah Weinman’s “Out of Clay”

• The Beat Goes On

• The Decline Of The West(ern)

• When Book Reviewers Collide

• Joe’s Paper And A Killer App For Bloggers

• Stephen King vs. Martin Amis

• Richard Hawke: When Spam Tastes Good

2005

December

• Book Links: Sinclair Lewis and P.J. O’Rourke

• Literature’s Best In One-Handed Reading

August

• A star for lee

March

• book review in progress: JSF’s EL&IC

February

• Mystery Recap: Robert Wilson, Peter Moore Smith, Lynda La Plante, Nancy Cohen

• Romance Recap: Nora Roberts, Susan Elizabeth Phillips

January

• Book Review: Full Moon

2004

November

• ‘I am Charlotte Simmons’

July

• Five Reviews About Carl Hiaasen

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