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o/t: Infinite Egoboo: an interview avec moi by Chaz Bufe
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 10, 2018
June sees the publication by the estimable See Sharp Press of the second, updated and expanded edition of my 2007 book Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science. The new version is over 75,000 words longer than the old; in other words, the expansion alone is longer than many full-le read more
book: Noir (2018) by Christopher Moore
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 9, 2018
You know you have a hardboiled novel in your hands when Chapter One starts like this: She had the kind of legs that kept her butt from resting on her shoes — a size-eight dame in a size-six dress and every mug in the joint was rooting for the two sizes to make a break for it . . . It’s read more
book: Paris Requiem (2001) by Lisa Appignanesi
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 6, 2018
It’s 1899 and Paris is readying itself for the Exposition Universelle of that year. Widowed lawyer James Norton arrives from Boston with strict instructions from his mother to extract his younger brother Raf from a potentially disastrous liaison with a — gasp! — Jewish actress, Ol read more
Feet of Clay (1960)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 5, 2018
UK / 56 minutes / bw / Danziger, UA Dir: Frank Marshall Pr: Edward J. Danziger, Harry Lee Danziger Story: Mark Grantham Cine: Jimmy Wilson Cast: Vincent Ball, Wendy Williams, Hilda Fennemore (i.e., Hilda Fenemore), Robert Cawdron, Brian Smith, Angela Douglas, Alan Browning, Sandra Alfred, David Cour read more
o/t: leisure reading for April
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 1, 2018
A fair number of books read this past month, although three of them are novellas and some of the others are relatively short. The links are as ever to my notes on Goodreads; however, in accordance with the New Policy, the last four pieces have been crossposted here. Fill in your details below read more
book: Three Weeks Dead (2016) by Rebecca Bradley
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 30, 2018
The second of two British crime novellas that I’ve read in a row rounds out April. The book that I started last night after I’d finished this one is just under 600 pages long, so I doubt I’ll have it finished by the beginning of May . . . ===== Software genius Jason Wells recently read more
book: Blackwater Lake (2015) by Maggie James
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 29, 2018
Matthew Stanyer’s childhood was ruined by his mother Evie’s obsessive hoarding — he could never bring friends back to a house where you could barely move for the stacks of junk crowding out every room and passageway — and he moved away from home as soon as he could. Now he&# read more
book: The Murder of Eleanor Pope (1956) by Henry Kuttner
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 28, 2018
I know Henry Kuttner from his sf/fantasy work, and in particular his short stories: his Bypass to Otherness is not just one of my favorite sf/fantasy collections but also among the best short-story collections I’ve read (and reread), whatever the genre. (Don’t be deceived by its vastly read more
They Never Learn (1956)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 28, 2018
UK / 46 minutes / bw / E.J. Fancey Productions, New Realm Dir & Scr: Denis L. Kavanagh, Edwin J. Fancey Pr: Edwin J. Fancey Cine: Hal Morey Cast: John Blyth (i.e., John Blythe), Jackie Collins, Graham Stark, Adrienne Scott, Michael Partridge, Ken Hayward, John Crowhurst, Campbell Singer (voice), read more
o/t: a policy change
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 25, 2018
For some years now I’ve been putting monthly roundups here of the book notes that I post on Goodreads, with links to the individual posts. My scribbles about movies have, of course, been posted here at Noirish. More and more I’ve been wondering if this isn’t sometimes an artificial read more
book: Force of Nature (2017) by Jane Harper
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 25, 2018
I read Jane Harper’s debut novel The Dry last year and enjoyed it very much, so when I spotted its successor I grabbed it. And quite rightly so, as I discovered: if anything I like Force of Nature the better of the two novels, which is saying something.
A Melbourne company sends ten of its em read more
Room 327 (2009)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 21, 2018
US / 19 minutes / bw / Dead Leaf, Lucky Studio XIII Dir & Scr: Glenn Payne Pr: Glenn Payne, John Wee Cine: John Wee Cast: Carlton Wall, Michelle Payne, Daniel Lee, Brandon Murphree. A young man, John (Wall), books into Room 327 at the Mockingbird Suites, as instructed by a note from whoever has read more
Traitor Spy (1939)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 14, 2018
vt The Torso Murder Mystery UK / 72 minutes / bw / Rialto, Pathé Dir: Walter Summers Pr: John Argyle Scr: Walter Summers, Jan Van Lusil, Ralph Bettison Story: Traitor Spy (1939) by T.C.H. Jacobs Cine: Robert LaPresle Cast: Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni, Romilly Lunge, Edward Lexy, Cyril Sm read more
The Bad Sister (1931)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 7, 2018
US / 65 minutes / bw / Universal Dir: Hobart Henley Pr: Carl Laemmle Jr Scr: Edwin Knopf, Tom Reed, Raymond L. Schrock Story: The Flirt (1913) by Booth Tarkington Cine: Karl Freund Cast: Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Winninger, Emma Dunn, ZaSu Pitts, “Slim” Summervi read more
o/t: Corrupted Science ARC cover reveal
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 3, 2018
And here’s one version of the blurb: When first published in 2007, this searing exposé of the misuses and misrepresentations of science—from the time of Galileo to the present day—was widely hailed. “A wonderfully written and relevant book,” said Jeff VanderMeer on Ecstatic Days. read more
o/t: March reading
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Apr 1, 2018
Here are the books I completed during March, with links as usual to my often hurried Goodreads notes: Overall it was a fairly enjoyable month’s reading, although in addition to the above there were a couple of abandonments. (Mind you, I should have abandoned one of the above, but I got stubbor read more
No Way to Live (2016)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 31, 2018
US / 85 minutes / color / Modernciné, Gravitas Dir & Scr: David Guglielmo, Nick Chakwin Pr: Rebekah Sindoris, David Guglielmo, Nick Chakwin Cine: Alexander Chinnici Cast: Freya Tingley, Tom Williamson, Timothy V. Murphy, Justin Arnold, Paul Rae, Carla Toutz, Christopher Douglas Reed, Larry Fesse read more
o/t: Fatalism and Futility in Film Noir
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 27, 2018
***Here’s a splendid essay from Paul Batters at Silver Screen Classics — much recommended if you have even the slightest interest in the underpinnings of noir. Silver Screen Classics by Paul Batters ‘Murder’s never perfect. Always comes apart sooner or later, and when two people are read more
Sensation Hunters (1933)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 24, 2018
US / 73 minutes / bw / Monogram Dir: Charles Vidor Pr: Robert Welsh Scr: Paul Schofield, Albert E. DeMond Story: “Cabaret” (original story) by Whitman Chambers Cine: Sid Hickox Cast: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth McKenna (i.e., Kenneth MacKenna), Juanita Hansen, Creighton Hale, read more
o/t: “The Right to Murder”
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Mar 18, 2018
The new edition of the London Review of Books carries a tremendous essay by Gaby Wood discussing Dorothy Hughes’s novel In a Lonely Place and more particularly Nick Ray’s movie of the same title that’s loosely based on it (although, as Wood observes, not that loosely). You can read read more