Rough Edges

As DC’s best-known characters, Superman and Batman have been teaming up to battle various super-villains for more than fifty years. Since I...

When I was a kid, I was a fan of boy-and-his-animal yarns, like the horse books by Walter Farley, dog books by Jim Kjelgaard, and even, yes,...

I’m usually out of steps with the critics and the public both, and FLYBOYS is a good example. It got mediocre reviews and did lousy at the ...

This is another Depression-era mystery set in the small town of Corden, South Dakota, featuring ne’er-do-well detective Carl Wilcox. This ti...

Gonzalo over at the Saddlebums blog has some kind words about DEATH HEAD CROSSING, including the hope that it's the first book in what...

Juri Nummelin points out in his comment on my post about the Saddlebums blog that Brian Garfield, in his interview t...

Randy Johnson mentions the Rat Patrol novels in his comment on the previous post. There were five of these published by Paperback Library in...

It was 31 years ago today that Livia and I got married. In some ways it doesn't seem nearly that long ago, and in others it seems like ...

If you're interested in Westerns -- and I know some of you are -- or even if you're not, you need to check out Saddlebums, a new blo...

I’ve been a fan of Bill Pronzini’s work ever since I read his Man From U.N.C.L.E. novella “The Pillars of Salt Affair” in the MFU digest mag...