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Tuesday's Overlooked A/V: films, television and more...
La ragazza che sapeva troppoThe weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention...
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FFS: Small-Town Law Week: Bill Pronzini: "The Hanging Man"; Howard Rigsby:...
Howard Rigsby: "Dead Man’s Story", (ss) Argosy Aug 27 1938, as “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead”; The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Nov 1951James Shaffer: "The Long Arm of the Law" [probably] New Western...
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Overlooked A/V: films, television and much more: new links to the reviews,...
Go for SistersThe weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention but sometimes...
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FFB: 100 Best Books books (and lists and such)
The other day, FFB founder and usual gatherer Patti Abbott was asking her social-media correspondents what she should look into for key works of fantasy fiction, since she felt that she hadn't done...
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A Whole Lot of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross (and LH & Bavan): Saturday Music Club
The two versions of the trio that were the greatest US exponents of jazz vocalese...the first episode of the third season of Fargo features their recording of "Moanin'" prominently...the first album...
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Overlooked A/V: films, television and more; links to reviews, essays,...
The weekly assembly of links to blogposts, reviews, essays, podcasts and other items of interest about audio/visual work, usually first-rate and deserving of one's attention but sometimes less so and...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books (and stories and magazines): The Links to the...
Patti Abbott will be gathering of links again next Friday, after returning from the MWA convention in NYC, and has an interview with Dana King posted on her blog this morning. As always it's a...
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Stoker Awards; Agatha Awards
**winners awarded last night for 2016 workSuperior Achievement in a NovelHand, Elizabeth – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel (Minotaur Books)Jones, Stephen Graham – Mongrels (William...
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April's Underappreciated Music: the links
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...Patti Abbott: Night MusicBrian Arnold: GenesisJayme...
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A. J. Wright: Whispering CityAlice Chang: PlayStation 4Anne Billson: Diamonds Are Forever (Cat of the Day)The Big Broadcast: 30 April 20177 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar“The Bennett Matter” Part 3...
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Grania Davis, RIP: FFB: THE INVESTIGATIONS OF AVRAM DAVIDSON: Collected...
I've had the good fortune to correspond with Grania Davis over the last year or so, mostly over FaceBook but also directly, and (as most people who've had an opportunity to correspond or speak with her...
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FFB: TURNING POINTS edited by Damon Knight (Harper & Row 1977); DREAM MAKERS:...
Two books about sf and fantasy and what's around them, Damon Knight's pioneering gathering of essays from various sources, about "The Art of Science Fiction" as the subtitle notes (there had been...
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FFB: THE BEST OF MYSTERY edited by Harold Q. Masur (attributed to Alfred...
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense is probably two (or so) otherwise unpublished books smashed together, though I'm not sure how to determine conclusively whether...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: links to the reviews and more.
The first pass for this Friday's crop of reviews of books, and magazines and more, that the contributors feel might warrant more attention than they've received or received of late (except for this...
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May's Underappreciated Music: the links
The monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...Patti Abbott: Rhiannon Giddens: "Come, Love,...
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A. J. Wright: Silent-Filmmaking in BirminghamAlice Chang: South Park: The Stick of Truth; The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (parody of typical game reviewers)the Allan Fish Online Film Festival...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books; links to the reviews and more
This Friday's crop of reviews of books, and magazines and more, that the contributors feel might warrant more attention than they've received or received of late (except for those which are...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: the links to the reviews and more
By the "Wade Miller" duo...a Suspense novelThis Friday's crop of reviews of books, and magazines and more, that the contributors feel might warrant more attention than they've received or received of...
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FFB: ALIEN CARGO by Theodore Sturgeon (Bluejay Books/St. Martin's 1984)
Theodore Sturgeon's other collections can all be considered to be superfluous, after the monument that was Paul Williams (and daughter Noel Sturgeon)'s The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon set...
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