Donald Westlake, ever the prolific author, has had two novels released since his death on New Year’s Eve of 2009, both brought to us by the stellar Hard Case Crime imprint. The first, in 2010, is called Memory, and was thought to be his only “lost” novel, until crime writer Max Allan Collins unearthed a […]
Author Archives: Jimmy Callaway
Spanish Prisoners: 5 Indispensable Books of Scam Fiction
Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction? It’s all a scam, isn’t it?
Run, Micro, Run
The notion of the sidekick has been a popular one in story-telling since time out of mind, yet it has most likely been brought to its highest prominence in superhero comics. The majority of these sidekicks, like Batman’s Robin, have been cheeky teenagers, created in order to act not only as foil for the hero, […]