You're back again, Colin! Great.
Happy New Year to all.
Karin
At 11:45 AM 31/12/2006 -0500,
scatalogic@aol.com wrote:
>Hello Avians,
>
>I have been here for years, went through a busy
posting time, then, all was
>silence. I hosted a month once, on hardboiled British
fiction and aim to
>become active again.
>
>Having just realised that pshycopathology and the
management of newspapers
>seem to go twisted hand in iron glove I think I can
now safely describe myself
>as a freelance journalist, writer and musician
(through my Altar Ego, The
>Reverend Spadge Dooley, chief executive officer of
the Church of the Awesome
>Machine Accidental.... not so much hardboiled and
noir, as deep fried and crispy
> brown.)
>
>My hardboiled Gods are somewhat predictable:
Chandler, Hammett, Derek
>Raymond, Jim Thompson, Horace McCoy sit at the top. I
enjoy Pelecanos and love
>David Peace, who is the author of the last (nearly)
hardboiled piece I read - The
>Damned United, which I would happily reccomend to
anyone who can live in the
>world of English soccer and man's inhumanity to man.
I'm also a big fan of
>the Maigret series and the man who started me on my
life of crime was the
>grandest grandaddy of them all, Sherlock
Holmes.
>
>In my work as a journalist I have regularly
interviewed the Forest of Dean's
>highest profile crime writer, Andrew Taylor (The
Lydmouth series, An
>American Boy) - who is probabaly not hardboiled by
most standards - and CJ Emerson,
>a new author from the area who Mr Taylor praises
highly and who probably has
>been in the pan a little longer. Shamefully, I am yet
to have a chance to
>complete Ms Emerson's debut so can't report on it, it
looks promising though.
>
>I should like to start posting again and becoming a
more active Avian.
>
>Happy new year to you all anyway - may your murders
be grizzly and your evil
>banal.
>
>Colin Ricketts.
>
>Join my Church:
www.myspace.com/thereverendspadgedooley
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