Friday’s Forgotten Book: Shackles by Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini is a spectacularly high-volume author, having written more than 300 short stories and more than 100 novels. He’s also compiled a large number of anthologies of mystery, science fiction, and Western short fiction. But he’s mostly known as a writer of...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Murder in Black and White by Evelyn Elder
Evelyn Elder was a pseudonym used by Milward Kennedy, which was the writing name of Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge (1894 –1968). Burge was an English civil servant, journalist, literary critic, and author of crime fiction. He was London editor of the Empire Digest and...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: One Last Hit by Nathan Walpow
I was fortunate enough to see the Summer of Soul documentary released earlier this year, restored footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and interviews with both singers and attendees. I had forgotten about some of the bands: Sly and the Family Stone in person...