Here’s another johnny-come-lately endorsement for Daniel Woodrell, whose 2006 novel Winter’s Bone is a great piece of writing. I’d never heard of this author until Uriah at Crime Scraps mentioned Woodrell’s novel Tomato Red in a post the other day. The passage he quoted was so evocative that I decided to investigate. Woodrell is […]
A new look at an old serial killer
I’ve long been fascinated by unsolved crimes. So the other night I watched “Zodiac,” about the serial killer who terrorized the Bay Area beginning in 1969 and was never caught. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr., the film didn’t do all that well at the box office — maybe because the murders attributed […]
The bittersweet smell of not-quite success
Two things relevant to my writing aspirations just came in the mail: My author copies of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (containing my latest short story), and a membership renewal notice from Mystery Writers of America. Both were kind of bittersweet. Don’t misunderstand: I love seeing my stuff in print. I love it more than […]
Ozymandias is the name
There’s a reason I don’t call it Dave’s Nonfiction Warehouse: Of the 50 or so books I’ve read so far this year, only a few have been nonfiction, most given to me by friends or family. But the best of those, The World Without Us, is just as compelling as any mystery or thriller […]
Not your father’s cliche. Oh wait; it is.
Maybe it’s time to retire the phrase, “This is not your father’s [blank],” where blank is the latest piece of obsolescent consumer goods some company is struggling to rebrand. I see it about four times a day, most recently in this New York Times story about the latest effort to hawk one more thing […]
Things I hate. Chapter 37.
I hear they had to hire extra custodial help at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today: too many people were having spontaneous orgasms over the appearance of Steve Jobs and his latest array of iParaphernalia. That kind of thing can get messy real fast. Or so I’m told. You know, this happens on […]
The last person to see ‘Lives of Others"
This blog is about as far behind the curve as it can get, so I suppose I shouldn’t be too embarrassed to heartily endorse a movie everyone’s already seen. Regarding all those great reviews you’ve seen for The Lives of Others, let me just say this: Me too. I pushed it up to the […]
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