Tomorrow is Brigid‘s day and to celebrate the tripartite goddess who became a saint of poets, ironmongers and healers, I’m giving away the third Hard-Boiled Witch story, Charms O’erthrown all day long on February 1st (UK folks click here). Here’s the blurb: Hecate Sidlaw finds herself in a wild storm of shady folks all looking…
Month: January 2015
Noir Classic: Ride the Pink Horse
The one and only Dorothy B. Hughes.
Summoned! And then Dismissed…
This is my Thursday: called in for a grand jury. We shall see how it goes. I am of course prepared from popular culture so I will rail about Magna Carta dying in vain, talk knowledgeably about my ‘lawyer acquaintance downtown’ and declare that you can’t handle the truth or that the whole damn system…
Out Now: Knight of the White Hart
Even better, it falls under the Tirgearr 99c/77p sale through the end of the month!
Scottish Night at Albany Symphony
As I idle along in my way, seemingly random and directionless at times, I nonetheless manage to be in the right place at the right time more often than one might reasonably expect. Friday night that was true, as I went with the delightful Mary Browne to see the ‘Scottish Night” with the Albany Symphony…
Unloading Your Head
‘I need a dump truck, mama, to unload my head…’ Bob Dylan, From a Buick 6 The difference between people who create things and people who do not is only that the former follow the impulses which infect their brains because trying to make them manifest is the true joy of being alive. Can I…
Upcoming Appearances
° Meet the Authors: Frankie Bailey and K.A. Laity Nassau Free Library January 26, 2015 @ 6:00 pm Rescheduling due to snow Professor Frankie Bailey (UAlbany) and Professor K. A. Laity (College of St. Rose) will be visiting the library to talk about their published mystery books and will introduce Mavens of Mayhem, the local…
(Not) Flying Away
Originally wrote: The time has come the walrus said to fly to other shores; but my heart remains in Dundee where it always soars. However, due to #scotstorm delays I will be staying another day and paying outrageous fees to British Airways. Not happy about that but I will make the most of another day.
What Then Is To Be Done?
Yes, echoing Tolstoy’s 1886 essay here because as editor Aylmer Maude writes in 1935: During the half-century that has passed since the book was written many political questions that then seemed highly important have passed into the dull recesses of history; but Tolstoy’s impressive warning that the pursuit and worship of money does not bring…
TOA/V: Home (J. G. Ballard’s The Enormous Space)
Speaking of Ballardian things…