On the Importance of Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling
A couple of years ago the memoirist and fiction writer Chris Offutt urged me to read Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling, first published in 1966. As promised, it was the…
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George Pelecanos
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George Pelecanos is the author of fifteen crime novels set in and around Washington, DC. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. Esquire called Pelecanos "the poet laureate of the DC crime world." Recently, he was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series, The Wire.
George Pelecanos’ Favorite Westerns
The Magnificent Seven (1960) A handful of professional gunmen led by black-clad Yul Brynner are hired to protect a south-of-the-border farming village from scores of bandits in John Sturges’ western…