Get in and buckle up! In this episode, we cover Drive by James Sallis. It’s a short work that speaks to the kind of crime fiction we love. For the appropriate listening experience break out your classic car and crank the stereo. #crimefiction #sallis #jamessallis #drive #noir Email the show: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir Facebook: Point …
For Episode 70, we visit mid-century urban America with Iceberg Slim’s Pimp. This is a gritty memoir that sold millions of copies, yet remains under discussed in crime writing circles. We will talk about the good of this book, and we also dig into the problems we had with it. Email the show: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: …
We finally get to Elmore Leonard! We asked for recommendations and received a lot of great suggestions from our listeners. Swag delivered with a tale of two robbers trying to make a buck. If they stick to the 10 rules, what could go wrong? Get in touch with the show: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir Facebook: Point …
With the book fresh in our minds, we take a look at the classic film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart. This is mostly a reaction episode looking at how the film diverged from the source material. Enjoy. Get in touch with the show: pointblanknoir@gmail.com Twitter: @pointblanknoir …
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Greed. Ambition. Gold Fever. Adventure. Join us for a discussion of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by the mysterious author B. Traven. Three men down on their luck strike out to find gold in the mountains of Mexico. Will they find their fortunes? Probably not or else it would be a boring book. While …
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Bienvenido a Cuba! Grab a rum and join us for Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria. Alicia is a woman looking for a rich man to help her escape. She’s got a plan that involves a bicycle and seduction. What she doesn’t plan for is a kidnapping. We discuss this novel, provide some short reviews, and …
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Blankers! Zip up your windbreakers and don’t forget change for the highway tolls — in Episode 58 we head to Chicago to wrap our heads around Chicago Noir. We talk about Chicago as a city for noir, and we look at crime fiction by Nelson Algren, Howard Browne, Frederic Brown, Sara Paretsky, Michael Harvey, Danny …
Buckle your seat belts! This is going to be a wild ride! We take a deep dive into “Blacktop Wasteland” by SA Cosby, a novel we both describe as a modern classic. Cosby takes us on a journey through the rural hills of Virginia in this exhilarating, timely work that highlights everything godo that modern …
In Episode 54, we revisit to one of the masters of hardboiled detective crime fiction, Raymond Chandler, and his acclaimed second novel, Farewell, My Lovely. Damn, this book is boozy. (And racist!) But also rich with memorable secondary characters (Moose Malloy and Jessie Florian) and Marlowean one-liners. It’s a classic example of hardboiled detective fiction …
