EQMM 2007-08 by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

Author:Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider

Ed Gorman has handed off this column to me, and I plan to continue Ed’s practice of presenting a wide variety of blogs for all types of readers. I’ll try to mention some prominent ones and to find some obscure ones you might not notice if not for me.

And speaking of prominent blogs, the first I’d like to recommend is Ed’s own: newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com. Like a lot of blogs, Ed’s is pretty much free-form. Recently he’s reviewed novels as varied as David Goodis’s The Wounded and the Slain and Saturday Games by Brown Meggs. He’s had an interview with author Charles Runyon, the rumors of whose death proved to be greatly exaggerated. He’s presented a list of ten crime novels that he believes should be read and re-read. No matter what he’s writing about, Ed is trenchant, informed, and informative. If you’re not reading his blog, you’re missing one of the real pleasures of the Internet.

Ed has previously recommended Steve Lewis’s Mystery*File blog in this space. It’s another blog that’s high on my list of pleasures, and it’s changed URLs since Ed’s earlier mention. It’s now found here: mysteryfile.com/blog/. Steve continues to have some of the best-researched articles on mystery you’ll find anywhere, along with movie reviews, book reviews, guest columns, letters from his readers, and great photos of book covers, lobby cards, and movie posters. Recent reviews include one of the movie Meet Boston Blackie, R. Austin Freeman’s The Jacob Street Mystery, and Richard Burke’s The Frightened Pigeon. There’s also a letter from Doug Swanson that explains why he is no longer writing the Flippo series. Mystery*File is essential reading for fans of the mystery and popular culture in general.

Duane Swierczynski, besides having a name that’s really hard for me to spell, is a crime writer of note (The Blonde being his latest novel), the editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia City Paper, an editor (of Damn Near Dead, an excellent anthology that includes an Edgar-nominated short story by, well, me), and a blogger (secretdead.blogspot.com/) who can be both vulgar and hilarious (see his posts on Allan Guthrie week), personal (posts on the birthdays of his wife and child), and serious (interviews with Ed Holub and Lance Doty, who are, respectively, trying to bring novels by David Goodis and Fredric Brown to the screen). Duane doesn’t post every single day, but he’s always interesting, so I check often.

Bill Crider’s own blog, Bill Crider’s Pop Culture Magazine, can be found at billcrider.blogspot.com.

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