TWENTY-SIX SECONDS, A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM Anyone who survived the 1960s can probably remember being asked: “Where were you when President Kennedy was
HIGH NOON, THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC Subtitled The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, High Noon
THE ARCHER FILES, THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF LEW ARCHER, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR Connoisseurs of 20th Century detective fiction regard the Lew Archer books by Ross
THE SKELETON CREW: HOW AMATEUR SLEUTHS ARE SOLVING AMERICA’S COLDEST CASES This book is not to be confused with Skeleton Crew, Stephen King’s 1985 collection
Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal Published in 1931, Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal, an informal biography, benefits from actual interviews granted the author by the legendary lawman.
The Big Rewind The Big Rewind is a murder mystery set among New York’s plugged-in media crazy hipsters. You could argue that hipster is an obsolete
Silent Echoes, Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton For a recent wedding anniversary gift, my wife bought me The Art of Buster
Moonbird Boy is the fourth in a series of five mystery novels by Abigail Padgett, published as a series in the mid-1990s. All five novels
Off Mike, A Memoir of Talk Radio Michael Krasny always wanted to be a writer like his idols Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow, but other things
Mantan the Funnyman, The Life and Times of Mantan Moreland Mantan Moreland was a comedian and actor in old-time movies and was usually seen playing
Dorothy L. Sayers, The Complete Stories Sayers is the 20th century English writer (1893-1957) known for her Christian writing and also, as the cover of
There’s something strangely familiar about Dan Simmons’ Drood. In mid-nineteenth century England Charles Dickens and William Wilkie Collins were successful writers and good friends. They
THE MAKING OF SOME LIKE IT HOT Billy Wilder’s 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot is listed as No. 14 of the hundred greatest movies and
With publication of the massive two-volume novel Blackout and All Clear in 2010, Connie Willis was subsequently named Grandmaster of Science Fiction. In the wake of this
Night Film is a private investigation thriller with touches of the supernatural. P. I. Scott McGrath has already damaged his reputation looking into the affairs of
It’s been 30 years since the first publication of Neuromancer, the essential cyberpunk novel. A jaundiced response to the 1980’s “morning in America,” cyberpunk is a bastard
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