Some months we read one particular book, or any book by one writer, or
something on a theme. Then we talk about it! Here's what's coming
up:
- September 2006: Michael Robison hosts a month about commentary
and criticism on hardboiled and noir
- January 2007: Remembering David Goodis (1917-1967)
Past Books and Themes of the Months
- Jul,
Aug,
Sep 1997:
Hard-Boiled,
edited by Bill Pronzini and Jack Adrian (Oxford University Press)
- November 1997: The Maltese
Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
- December 1997: Farewell, My
Lovely, Raymond Chandler
- January 1998: The Drowning
Pool, Ross Macdonald
- February 1998: The Killer
Inside Me, Jim Thompson
- February 1998: The Talented
Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
- March 1998: A Rage in
Harlem, Chester Himes
- March 1998: Devil in a Blue
Dress, Walter Mosley
- May 1998: Hollywood
Nocturnes, James Ellroy
- June 1998: A Long
Reach, Michael Stone
- July 1998: The Burnt Orange
Heresy, Charles Willeford
- August 1998: It's Not a
Pretty Sight, Gar Anthony Haywood
- September 1998: The Postman
Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
- October 1998: Phantom
Lady, Cornell Woolrich
- November 1998: I Was Dora
Suarez, Derek Raymond
- December 1998: The Simple Art
of Murder, Raymond Chandler
- February 1999: Murderer's
Row (Matt Helm #4), Donald Hamilton
- March 1999: Get
Carter, Ted Lewis
- May 1999: Pimp,
Iceberg Slim
- June 1999: Whoreson,
Donald Goines
- July 1999: They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?, Horace McCoy
- August 1999: The Dead Don't
Care, Jonathan Latimer
- September 1999: Blue
Lonesome, Bill Pronzini
- October 1999: Kiss Me,
Deadly, Mickey Spillane
- November 1999: The Man with
the Getaway Face, Donald E. Westlake
- December 1999: Never
Street, Loren D. Estleman
- January 2000: Red
Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
- February 2000: King
Suckerman, George Pelecanos
- March 2000: Freaky
Deaky, Elmore Leonard
- April 2000: Interface,
Joe Gores
- May 2000: The Asphalt
Jungle, William R. Burnett
- June 2000: Drawing
Dead, Pete Hautman
- July 2000: The Monkey's
Raincoat, Robert Crais
- August 2000: Chinaman's
Chance, Ross Thomas
- November 2000: Richard Stark's
Parker
- December 2000: Brett Halliday's
Mike Shayne
- January 2001: Charles Willeford
- February 2001: Richard
S. Prather's Shell Scott
- April 2001: Work and the work ethic
- May 2001: Dorothy B. Hughes: is
she or isn't she? (Answer: when she wants to be)
- June 2001: Howard Browne (Paul
Pine series, etc.)
- September 2001: Los Angeles
- October 2001: San Francisco
- November 2001: Boston
- December 2001: Washington, D.C.
- January 2002: Latino noir and
hardboiled fiction (run by Miguel Ramos)
- July 2002: United Kingdom
hardboiled and noir
- August 2002: Fawcett Gold Medal
paperback originals
- September 2002: Procedurals
- October 2002: pre-1930 hardboiled
writing
- November 2002: 1930-1939 (survey
of the decade)
- December 2002: 1940-1949
- January 2003: 1950-1959
- February 2003: 1960-1969
- March 2003: 1970-1979
- April 2003: 1980-1989
- May 2003: 1990-present
- June 2003: John D. MacDonald
- July 2003: Charles Willeford
- August 2003: Georges Simenon
(especially non-Maigret books)
- January 2004: Hardboiled and noir
SF (science fiction/speculative fiction/fantasy/etc.)
- February 2004: Guest of honour: James Sallis
- April 2004: The American Southwest
(Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, etc.) (run by Bill Crider)
- September 2004: Seventy-five years of
The Maltese Falcon
- January 2005: Ross Macdonald,
Black Money (1966)
- February 2005: Ross Thomas, under his
own, as Oliver Bleeck, or anything else.
- March 2005: Joseph Hansen
(1923-2004). The Dave Brandstetter series, and his other work.
- April 2005: Guest of honour: Vicki Hendricks
- May 2005: Guest of honour: Dennis Lynds
- September 2005: Guest of
honour: Kent Harrington
- November 2005: Guest of honour: Domenic Stansberry
Last updated: 06 June 2006 22:49:32 EDT
