The problem with buying anthologies of mystery stories is that if you love them as I do, you’ll find quite a few you’ve already read. So it is with A Century of Great Suspense Stories, edited in 2001 by Jeffery Deaver. Of its 36 stories, I recognized maybe half a dozen, by such luminaries […]
A walk in the dark with Joyce Carol Oates
I became a fan of Joyce Carol Oates’ short fiction in November 2003, when one of her stories appeared in the same issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as one of mine. If you missed it, too bad. Though it pains me to say so, I guess I can now concede that her story […]
Say hello to the other Ben Kingsley
The other night I was still tossing and turning at 1:30 a.m., as is often the case, so I grabbed the remote. The chance of finding something decent to watch at that hour is right up there with winning it all at Powerball, but this time I got lucky: Sexy Beast was on one […]
A little writing advice from Papa
As a younger man I was a great fan of Ernest Hemingway’s early stories — stuff like “The Three Day Blow” and “The Big Two-Hearted River.” And like most young men who think about writing, I shamelessly aped his style in community-college writing classes, cobbling together a bunch of pointless stories that I never […]
Cartoon books in a cartoon world
Here’s the kind of raucous good times you can have in Second Life: nothing like a few cartoon marionettes spazzing out on a pixelated dance floor that looks like it was rendered in Microsoft Paint sometime in 1995. Nice title, too (see link). They have virtual dances in Second Life, but they don’t have […]
‘Dallas’ redux, without the shoulder pads
It’s good to see Hollywood finally talking about making good movies again. I’m referring, of course, to “Dallas,” which is technically the last American television series not to have been made into a feature film (except for “My Mother The Car,” a Viacom release scheduled for 2009). Variety reports John Travolta has been signed […]
On the Beach? Nope, on ‘The Road’
Cormac McCarthy will be pleased to learn that he has earned the coveted Dave’s Book Club award for his 2006 novel The Road. I know there have been other, lesser honors, such as the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, but that’s no reason to stint. C.M., I now bestow a lifetime membership in Dave’s pantheon of […]
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