There are writers whose work you love to read, and writers whose work you love to read…but also make you mad with envy. The latter, I believe, comes at an intersection of talent and bravery. When the author’s narrative gifts and honed skills make you think damn, I wish I’d written that, and his or [...]
Category Archive for ‘Guest Posts’ 
Totalitarian Fiction
Sep 26, 2011 in Books, Film, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
We kick off our week-long celebration of the publication of THE REVISIONISTS by Thomas Mullen, a book that Publishers Weekly called (in a starred review) an “excellent thriller set in the near future” and that Library Journal (also in a starred review) called “an outstanding dystopic novel.” Here, Mullen examines the world of totalitarian fiction. [...]
A Conversation with Matthew F. Jones
Sep 22, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
A Single Shot is in many ways a different breed of noir than other, less daring works of crime fiction—particularly in regard to the way the novel ends. Was choosing a fate for Moon difficult for you? Or did it simply seem like the natural conclusion all the way through your writing process? (Did you [...]
A Single Shot‘s Journey to the Screen
Sep 20, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
In our ongoing celebration of the publication of the first Mulholland Classic, A SINGLE SHOT, author Matthew F. Jones details the ongoing story of how a book becomes a film. The history of A SINGLE SHOT’s journey to the screen (a history yet in the making) is a torturous one that extends almost back to [...]
Six Angles of Wrath: An Appreciation of Matthew F. Jones’ A SINGLE SHOT
Sep 19, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
In 1996, Daniel Woodrell was one of the first to weigh in when Matthew F. Jones’ acclaimed novel A SINGLE SHOT was first published, writing: “Jones owns a fine writer’s eye for the kind of details that matter” in a review that ran in The Washington Post. As Mulholland Books brings A SINGLE SHOT back [...]
Do Guns Make the Man?
Sep 16, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts
Weaponry is highly effective in defining characters. After a thousand years, we still know the legend of King Arthur and his mystical sword, Excalibur. Other distinctive weapons that define their characters: The hammer of Thor; light sabers in Star Wars – quoted by Obi Wan Kenobi as “an elegant weapon.” Only the elite Jedi use [...]
Six Ways To Get Hooked on Crime Comics
Sep 15, 2011 in Comic Books, Guest Posts
Crime doesn’t pay — that is, unless you’re looking for some quality comic books. Even back to the industry’s pulp-influenced roots in the 1940s, bad guys have always made good stories, even as they aroused the ire of parents, psychiatrists, and even Congress. With crime comics hitting a resurgence with movies like Sin City, Road [...]
George V. Higgins: An Appreciation of Boston’s Balzac
Sep 13, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts
While clerking at a chain bookstore in Norfolk, Virginia a zillion years ago, I once watched in wonder at how a particular customer went about choosing her reading material. She was a regular, who worked in one of the nearby office buildings and who came in to get a book on her lunch break on [...]
If You Lived Here, You’d Already Be Home
Sep 12, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts
For the past several weeks, I’ve been on book tour for my novel, The End of Everything. Tours are funny things—marathons of sorts, running from city to city, hopping time zones, talking endlessly about yourself and your book until you want to plug your ears and hide under the table. And then punctuated by moments [...]
Save The Last Dance for Satan: An Interview with Nick Tosches
Sep 09, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts
In celebration of the publication of NickTosches’ new book of essays on the music business and his appearance tonight at the New York Public Library’s Jefferson Market Branch Library (8 PM), we’ve re-published a conversation thatTosches recently had with NYPL librarian Marie Hansen. NYPL: According to Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway wrote a strict average [...]
