March 9, 2010

LIt Randomness: About that literature stuff….

Lit Stuff=Impose Magazine.
The blog is called Codex. Lit Randomness, the occasional book review and Q&A’s will carry over.
Here’s the first post on some Sam Lipsyte interviews. Later this week, a quick Q&A with Lipsyte.
I’ve always appreciated the many authors who took a few minutes out for Deckfight, and now this connection with Impose will give [...]

July 2, 2009

missed it the first time, hard-boiled edition: Double Indemnity

For some summer reading, Thursdays in July will be devoted to old-school pulp-fiction crime noir stories from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Haven’t read any of this stuff before, so it’s high-time for a foray into the bowels of hard-boiled. The first one–Double Indemnity by James Cain.

This is essentially the classic L.A. crime story. [...]