Rough Edges

One of my main complaints about a lot of current novels is that they're too blasted long. So an anthology like this is a great thing fo...

This is the third book in the Lou Largo series. Some sources say that William Ard started it and that it was finished by Lawrence Block aft...

The new issue of Hardluck Stories , Dave Zeltserman's fine on-line magazine, is now available. This is the Western Noir issue and featu...

It doesn't seem possible that thirty years have passed since this picture was taken. It sure doesn't feel like that long ago. Than...

Since it's after midnight, it's officially our anniversary. Here's one of the pictures from that day.

I was in the mood to read a vintage hardboiled paperback, and this is what came to hand. I'd never read any of William Ard's myster...

VALLEY OF THE WORM, the fifth book in Wildside Press's ten-volume collection of Robert E. Howard's stories that were originally publ...

Nobody writes Westerns quite like Ed Gorman. There’s little of the mythological West about them. Reading his novels, you get the feeling t...

As most of you no doubt already know, Bill Crider recently posted a couple of slideshows of covers from men's adventure paperbacks, whi...

Yesterday our daughter Shayna graduated from college with a degree in biochemistry. Don't ask me where she got enough science knowledge ...