Monday, January 25, 2021

An evening with Walter Mosley.

On February 8, the Dallas Museum of Art will be hosting a virtual event with Walter Mosley in connection with his new novel Blood Grove.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

"Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer."

S. J. Perelman, 1973,
by Jill Krementz. NYPL.
Cleo Zani of the Eventide Theatre Company (Dennis, MA) performs "Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer," S. J. Perelman's 1944 spoof of hard-boiled detective fiction: "Her bosom was heaving and looked even better that way." Originally published in the New Yorker, it is included in this anthology.

Monday, January 11, 2021

"The father of Russian detective fiction."

Dostoevsky
In "E. A. Poe and A. A. Shklharevskij" in the Dec. 2020 SIC: Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, Maja Pandzic (University of Zadar, Croatia) discusses the connections among Edgar Allan Poe, Emile Gaboriau, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Aleksandr Andreevich Skljarevski (the last dubbed here "the father of Russian detective fiction").

Monday, January 04, 2021

Turkey's first detective TV series.

 Read more about Alef, Turkey's first detective TV series.