Walter Moseley's next book is a SciFi time travel book this
winter for his
new publisher Little Brown. He does have another Easy rawlins
coming from
his old publisher; book is titled (something like) Bad Boy
Bobby Brown.
Jim Sallis is a national treasure. He has a new book out this
month (?)
whose title escapes me. Check out Robert Skinner's Blood Red,
Skin Deep.
Robert Skinner is also an academic who writes great scholarly
books on
hard-boiled writers.
When you try Gary Phillips from LA, don't forget his buddy
Gar Anthony
Haywood's black PI series. I think Gar's writing some tv
episodes
nowadays, too. Also from LA, try Dick Lochte's two Nawleeans
books.
(Dick has a co-written series starting sometime this year
with Chris
darden, the OJ prosecutor.)
Oh, I just finished reading Elmore Leonard's next book Cuba
Libre, his
"Spanish western," due out this january. It may be his best
book. He
out-Hemingways Hemingway. (Leonard told me this past summer
his first
idol was Hemingway and his "Spanish westerns.")
Frederick Zackel
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