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THE DUTTON REVIEW, edited by Jerome Charyn, Hal Scharlatt and Robert Brown...
The Dutton Review got off to a good start and didn't get to go anywhere else; this was the only issue. And while E. P. Dutton had a lot to be proud of on its lists, they clearly weren't too interested...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books; the links to the reviews for 30 June 2017
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 warnings,...
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FFB: PULLING OUR OWN STRINGS: FEMINIST HUMOR & SATIRE edited by Gloria...
This 1980 volume somewhat unsurprisingly gathers materials from the 1970s and earlier...one might be surprised by the eclecticism of those materials, including short stories, essays, novel excerpts and...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the Reviews: 14 July 2017
This Friday's (evening) 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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FFB: Heist Week: ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW by William P. McGivern (Dodd, Mead...
William P. McGivern is a writer who shouldn't need rediscovery, but he consistently is being reintroduced, as publishers keep proudly offering his work (with good reason) with notes of just how good he...
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FFStories: Mickey Spillane Parodies and Pastiches by Jean Kerr, Fritz Leiber...
Three stories this week that are meant to be parodic pastiches of Mickey Spillane, at least in part. I'd first read all these before I'd actually read Spillane, but the degree of his influence on the...
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FFB: THE BARBIE MURDERS aka PICNIC ON NEARSIDE by John Varley (Berkley 1980)
In 1980, after the publication of his first three somewhat disappointing novels and the all but intolerably brilliant first, 1978, collection of his shorter fiction, Berkley, which was publishing his...
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FFB: ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S WITCH'S BREW edited by Henry Veit (Random House...
Among the manifold confusions that the branding of "Alfred Hitchcock" anthologies has engendered, between their clutch of publishers (particularly Dell Books, which was in the "Hitchcock" anthology...
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FFM/B: New fantasy short fiction on the US newsstands & bookshelves, late...
Short fantasy fiction on the American racks, late 1976:There were other magazines and other books publishing new fantasy fiction (including horror and often along with crime or science fiction), but in...
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THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES annual, edited by Richard Davis, Gerald W....
Since I rather laboriously straightened out the sequencing of the Richard Davis volumes as they were reshuffled and reprinted in the US for Wikipedia (and amended the introductory paragraph), I thought...
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Brian Aldiss, RIP
Unfortunately, Brian Aldiss's family have this morning confirmed his death, on Friday, his 92nd birthday.Brian Aldiss @brianaldiss (Twitter)It is with great sadness we announce the death of our...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more
This week's selection of books, magazine issues and a bit of shorter fiction that the reviewers feel has been unjustly (or occasionally justly) neglected in recent years or at least months...originator...
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FFB: TABOO and TABOO 2, edited by Paul Neimark (New Classics House 1964, 1965)
For fairly obvious reasons, there has been an interplay between First Amendment advocacy, bohemian writers, sexually explicit fiction and other publications, and the occasional publication of fairly...
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Two Documents: 1992: Robert Bloch remonstrates with Joe Lansdale and David...
Your horror/suspense and fantasy+ magazine artifacts for Labor Day.Richard Chizmar shared some Cemetery Dancecorrespondence on FaceBook some years back. (Few spell "cemetery" correctly with...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: redacted, technically scrambled post (corrected...
This week's selection of books, magazine issues and a bit of shorter fiction that the reviewers feel has been unjustly (or occasionally justly) neglected in recent years or at least months...originator...
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FFM: 1960 crime fiction magazines in English
Ellery Queen's Mystery MagazineEllery Queen's AnthologyBestseller Mystery MagazineLondon Mystery SelectionJohn Creasey Mystery MagazineManhuntThe Saint Mystery MagazineThe Saint Mystery...
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FFB: some entry points: THE COMPLETE [sic] HUMOROUS SKETCHES AND TALES OF...
The HarperAudio omnibus re-issue. Possibly packaged first by Caedmon before they were bought out by HarperCollins.Well, this week was going to be devoted to the last long fictions published by Joanna...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more...added links...
This week's selections, reviews of the books and more cited below, include a few duplicates, whether due to review of reissues or announcement of them, or a couple of quick looks at a key, vintage...
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Underappreciated Music: September 2017: the links to the sounds
The (frequently) 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: Nightly MusicBrian...
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FFB: Kit Reed, 1932-2017 and some of her peers
Kit Reed died this past week; energetic up to the point where her inoperable brain tumor got the better of her over the last month or so, at age 85 she left us a final novel and a final short story...
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