Friday, November 01, 2013

Starktober: The Aftermath

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Closing Thoughts I'm assuming I should thank you for your indulgence during Starktober, but the great thing about a blog is that I hav...

A Fiendish Plan

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If you wanted to implement a single-payer health care plan in the largest economy in the world, how would you do it? If you try to directly ...

Read in October

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Around these parts, October turned into Starktober , so you'll notice a certain consistency of author to the list below. If you're n...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Starktober Lagniappe: Jimmy the Kid

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Starktober has been dark and serious all month, but Halloween is a day for mischief and hijinks and things that aren't real -- and so ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Starktober 28: Dirty Money

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This is not the end of Parker's story. Oh, sure, Dirty Money was the last book Richard Stark published -- it could hardly be other...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Starktober 27: Ask the Parrot

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Ask the Parrot begins only a minute or two after Nobody Runs Forever ends; Parker is climbing a slope behind a diner, having just learne...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Starktober 26: Nobody Runs Forever

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All of the Parker novels are connected, at least slightly, to others in the series, with recurring characters and old problems that turn b...

Reviewing the Mail: Week of 10/26

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I do wonder, sometime, if the trade publishing houses are moving to a monthly publicity cycle, instead of focusing on a week's worth of ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Incoming Books: October 25

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I don't seem to get into decent comic stores -- and I define "decent" as "having a decent proportion of their stock not...

Starktober 25: Breakout

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For all of Richard Stark's laconic style and taut plotting, there's a depth of detail about Parker and his world stated or implied...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Starktober 24: Firebreak

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As Terry Treachout notes in his introduction, Firebreak has the best first line of any Parker novel, and one of the very best of all time...
Friday, October 25, 2013

Starktober 23: Flashfire

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Flashfire has the longest sustained string of larceny and mayhem in any Parker novel, and it's all in the service of doing something ...
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Starktober 22: Backflash

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Comeback proved that Parker was back, after his long hiatus. And then, a year later, Backflash showed that he wasn't alone: many of ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Starktober 21: Comeback

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...and then twenty-three years passed, in the wink of an eye. Parker skipped Carter and Reagan and the first Bush to land deep in Clinto...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Starktober 20: Butcher's Moon

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If noir can be epic, Butcher's Moon is its The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly . The culmination of all of Stark's previous novels -...