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Quote for the Day II: Warren Zevon & Vick Hendricks sitting in a tree…?

Quote for the Day II: Warren Zevon & Vick Hendricks sitting in a tree…?
February 3, 2012
Books

Here’s an interesting line from Warren Zevon’s bio: “We ate at Hard Rock where I sat next to him and …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day: Patton Oswald on Derek Raymond

Quote for the Day: Patton Oswald on Derek Raymond
February 3, 2012
Books

Can you recommend a good book? A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is really good. James Ellroy’s …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 12, 2011
Column

I’ve made a similar point myself over the years. I have been reading mostly web-based stories this week and getting …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day: St. Patrick’s Day edition

Quote for the Day: St. Patrick’s Day edition
March 17, 2011
Books

Irish author Adrian McKinty’s latest book, Falling Glass, opens with the Irish character Killian having a beer at a bar …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day II

Quote for the Day II
October 21, 2010
Books

Manufactured confrontation: the artistic bad faith involved in positing a universe so full of hostility that all an author has …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
October 21, 2010
Books

“…in some senses, suspense fiction is really at its most interesting when it’s anxiety fiction — when the people are …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
August 19, 2010
Books

I used to write dark fantasy before I switched over to crime. Horror fiction, I tell them, is mostly a …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
June 23, 2010
Film

While pursuing another line of thought I found this line in an interview with Walter Hill. It’s an interesting and …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
June 18, 2010
Film

DT: I walked on that movie set as a drug counselor. I was helping this kid I was counseling. He …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
June 11, 2010
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Hey, I’m no prude and there’s a place for language in all it’s manifestations. I’ll say effing as fast as …Read the Rest

Quote For The Day – Noel Murray

Quote For The Day – Noel Murray
May 24, 2010
TV

Nerd here.  Noel Murray of the AV Club had some shit to say about the endings of genre fiction in …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 21, 2010
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Brian LindenmuthBrian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 20, 2010
Books

Coincidence has no place in twenty first century writing. It’s actually a worse device for solving plot problems than the …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 18, 2010
Book Reviews

Essentially, in the traditional comics, the requirements are a lot of Wham! — and a lot more Bam! — but …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 13, 2010
Books

There’s a central paradox in Greek tragedy, which is this: the tragic hero brings about his own downfall because of …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
May 5, 2010
Column

“I’m not in the business of validating people’s preconceptions and stroking their mindset and giving them an hour and a …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day: Joel Edgerton

Quote for the Day: Joel Edgerton
April 27, 2010
Film

Two choice quotes from Joel Edgerton “My theory is that noir films became less popular because they always represented the …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
April 6, 2010
Books

The beauty and freedom of writing a stand alone is you can do anything you want. Blow up the world, …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
April 4, 2010
Books

Brian LindenmuthBrian is the non-fiction editor of Spinetingler magazine and one of the fiction editors of Snubnose Press. In addition …Read the Rest

Quote for the Day

Quote for the Day
March 26, 2010
Books

And then should readers be taking genre fiction seriously at all? Well, in my more serious moments I like to …Read the Rest