Rough Edges

(This post originally appeared in somewhat different form on October 21, 2009.) Neither Livia nor I could remember whether we’d ever see...

Gotta love those Allen Anderson PLANET STORIES covers, along with titles like "Sargasso of Lost Spaceships", the Poul Anderson ...

That's a striking cover from one of the leading Western pulps. DIME WESTERN always had a great line-up of authors, and this issue is ...

I've been a fan of Erle Stanley Gardner's Donald Lam and Bertha Cool books ever since I picked up a copy of SHILLS CAN'T CA...

Ed Gorman is one of the few writers for whom I'll waive my "no politics" rule. Well, actually it's not a hard and fast ...

101 ESSENTIAL TEXAS BOOKS is itself an essential book about Texas. Written by Glenn Dromgoole, whose newspaper columns I used to read w...

Since we don't have cable TV and I don't really keep up with what's on most of the time, I hadn't heard of this series ...

From the introduction by Richard Wheeler: Nothing escaped Ron Scheer’s sharp eye. In the course of preparing his magisterial work on ea...

Every time I read one of Peter Brandvold's Sheriff Ben Stillman books, I decide that Stillman is my favorite Brandvold character. Of ...

David Goodis is by far the biggest name in this issue of DETECTIVE YARNS, although he wasn't as big a name in 1941 as he was during t...