2019 Edgar Awards: winners and shortlist
As presented on 26 April:http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html***marks the winnersBest Novel The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone Publishing)House Witness by Mike Lawson (Grove...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 26 April 2019:...
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club (on Thursday): Songs in the shower:
Little Milton: "Lonely No More"Muddy Waters: "Don't Go No Farther""Forty Days and Forty Nights"Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: "Bijou""Moanin'""Twisted""Centerpiece"Doc Watson: "Walk On, Boy"The...
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April 2019 (Further) Underappreciated Music
The (theoretically) monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger/poster in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of... Jayme Lynn Blaschke: Friday...
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FFB: THE SET-UP by Joseph Moncure March (Covici-Friede 1928) as reviewed in...
The other week I saw the neat little noir film The Set-Up (1949), about Robert Ryan as an over-the-hill but not finished boxer, though his wife (played by Audrey Totter) is worried he's sticking with...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 3 May 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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Spoken Word Mythology and Folklore Recordings
I still have the open-reel tape on which I dubbed this LP, borrowed from the Enfield Public Library, ca. 1974. We didn't yet have a cassette deck in the then-current stereo system.I genuinely loved the...
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FFB: THE MYSTERY COMPANION and THE ARMCHAIR COMPANION edited by A. L. Furman...
A. L. or Abraham Loew (or Louis) Furman, is apparently a man largely lost to time...William Contento's Index to SF Anthologies and Collections notes that he was "Manager of a publishing firm (Amour...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS And More: The Links to Reviews: 10 May 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books and More: the links to the reviews: 17 May 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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The best crime fiction of the year annuals of Ed Gorman and Martin H....
In 1990, Mystery Scene founders Ed Gorman and Robert Randisi took on Martin H. Greenberg as a partner in the magazine, and in 1991, Randisi sold his stake in the magazine to Greenberg. In that year,...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 24 May 2018
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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FFB: THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES, SERIES VII edited by Gerald W. Page (DAW...
Dennis Etchison died this past week, after a long career (and, I'm sure, a too-brief life) of good to brilliant work as a writer and editor. I thought I'd take a minute to recall not quite the first...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to the reviews: 31 May 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
View ArticleFolk-Rock with strong jazz flavors: Saturday Music Club on Thursday
Fairport Convention: Bouton Rouge, Live Broadcast, April 27 1968(my father's 31st birthday...TM)01-Morning Glory. 02-Time Will Show The Wiser.. 03-Reno Nevada. Line-Up: Judy Dyble - Vocals/Recorder...
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Underappreciated Music: May (and a bit of June) 2019: the links to...
Doris Day and friendThe monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger/poster in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of...among those we'll...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: The Links to the Reviews: 7 June 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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A bit of television history...New York City, 10 January 1961, and the need...
On Tuesday, 10 Jan '61, New Yorkers were offered the following on their slew of VHF stations (the New York Daily News, my source for this information, didn't bother to list the UHF stations in those...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to reviews: 14 June 2019
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from);...
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Memorial for Carol Emshwiller: 27 July 2019, 1-5pm, at Anthology Film...
Erroneously, the date was reported as 27 June in the first posting of this note. All my sleepiness.Eve, Susan and Stoney Emshwiller have announced a memorial for their mother Carol, on Saturday, 27...
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