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Bill Crider, and some of his work and play, including some short stories: the...
The Next Edition Quartet: Bill Crider, Ed Looby, Gary Logsdon and Richard Wolfe: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"Bill Crider: How I Became a Mystery FanKarin Montin: Meeting Bill CriderVictoria Kemp on Bill...
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Karin Montin: Meeting Bill Crider
Meeting Bill CriderBill at the 2010 San Francisco BoucherconI first heard of Bouchercon, the world’s biggest convention for mystery fans (and authors) through Rara-Avis, an online discussion group...
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Richard Lupoff on Bill Crider
I can only recall meeting Bill Crider once--at a Bouchercon--but wish I'd got to know him better. In person he was a pleasant person. "Comfortable" strikes me as the appropriate word. He was courteous...
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Victoria Kemp on Bill Crider
I've never met Bill Crider. I just read his books and then started following him on Facebook. He posted regularly, both as himself on his personal and on his author page. His author page was a fun...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: E PLURIBUS UNICORN by Theodore Sturgeon; NINE...
FFB bonus: Robert Bloch, 1979:Leigh Brackett, J. Francis McComas and Eric Frank Russell in memoriam"I have always felt that, at his best, nobody wrote better science fiction and fantasy than Ted...
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Guest FFB: Barry N. Malzberg on ANATOMY OF A KILLER by Peter Rabe
Just finished this, one of 16 Rabe novels I ordered from Stark House in fulfillment of an ancient sense of obligation (I had never read a word of Rabe...read his divorced wife Claire [Rabe, initially...
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cover gallery: E PLURIBUS UNICORN by Theodore Sturgeon
Richard Powers's painting for the first Ballantine paperback edition, 1956.Bill Rose, 1961Richard Powers again, Ballantine 1965Robert Pepper, Ballantine 1970Uncredited and uninspired, but OK. 19681977...
View ArticleElegies and Lamentations: Saturday Music Club on Tuesday
Oscar Brown, Jr. sets Gwendolyn Brooks's "of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery" to music: "Elegy"different songs, same title:Shelley Fisher: "Big City Lights"Cleo Randle (aka Cleo...
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FFB: The Scott, Foresman Invitation to Reading Program edited by Helen...
I've written before about the Scott, Foresman reading/literature textbooks that my various schools, public and private, used through my elementary through high school education (1970-1982), in...
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December's Underappreciated Music: December 2017
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: Nightly Music and What Makes for...
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FFB: THE SUPERNATURAL IN FICTION edited by Leo P. Kelley (McGraw-Hill 1973);...
Two good examples of painless education in fantastic fiction publishing, even if neither was given quite the support they could have used. Leo P. Kelley, as far as I know, was never a teaching...
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book received: Floyd Mahannah: THE BROKEN ANGEL; BACKFIRE AND OTHER STORIES...
Floyd Mahannah is one of our Lost writers of crime fiction, as detailed in Bill Pronzini's fine introduction to this omnibus comprising one of his several novels and the apparently complete published...
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FFB/M: FANTASY: THE LITERATURE OF THE MARVELOUS, edited by Leo P. Kelley...
As with the Leo P. Kelley high-school-targeted textbook in the same Patterns in Literary Art series I dealt with last week, the Fantasy companion is an interesting mix of chestnuts and some classics,...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books (and more): the links to reviews and more
This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, to be warned away from). Patti Abbott will...
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FFB: HEAVEN AND HELL edited by Joan D. Berbrich (McGraw-Hill 1975);...
Two 1975 textbooks, more or less.Though Joe David Bellamy's anthology SuperFiction was published in Random House's "prestige" paperback line Vintage (and to be published in 1975 as a slightly beefy...
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Yahoo News, your alternate history news source...
[Reagan's Watergate coverage courtesy Gordon Van Gelder] from a sidebar today, this photo and headline together: Mark E. Smith, frontman of British post-punk band the Fall, dead at 60
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Walter Albert: The Alienist by Caleb CarrYvette Banek: The Ponson Case by Freeman Wills Croft Bernadette: Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips Les Blatt: The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie; The Sunken...
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FFB: books drawn from FANTASTIC and THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
The two most durable of the US-based fantasy-fiction magazines of the latter half of the 20th Century, Fantastic Stories (founded 1952, folded into stablemate Amazing early in 1981) and The Magazine of...
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FFM: SF magazines, Fall 1978
painting by Ron Barber; James Sallis misspelledAs I've mentioned from time to time on the blog, I fell in thoroughly (back) in love with fiction magazines in the last few months of 1977, managing to...
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Underappreciated Music: January 2018
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: Louis Prima and Keely Smith: "Just a...
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