Monday, February 18, 2013
Two Anthologies
I've got stories in two new anthologies which are out soon. I've got a little tale in the new Best British Crime Fiction #10 (the last ever Best British Crime fiction anthology Maxim says (but he always says that)). I've also got a story in an anthology which "is inspired by the life and work of Lee Marvin" produced by Crime Factory, edited by Cameron Ashley and Andrew Nette and called simply, Lee. Both these anthologies should be available soon on Amazon, Book Depository and at all good bookshops.
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I read Best British Crime 8 from cover to cover. I guess if we're talking 10 I'm a little behind.
Adrian ,Enjoyed your interviews and commentary and I am looking forward to Best British Crime 10 with more of you're writing.It appears to me that Sweden may have helped pioneer the use of crime fiction as a vehicle for social criticism but yourself, Ken Bruen,Gene Kerrigan and Stuart Neville are not far behind. You also bring a dash of humor,wit and irony sometimes missing in Scandinavian works. In your interviews you mentioned the "Old Boy" connections controlling the media via school ties but is better in the U,S. where plutocracy reigns and all to often politicians denigrate their backgrounds Bush,Kerry for fear of offending Joe SIx Pack and the wild eyed "Palinites" ?Maybe I will find the answer in Consolation of Philosophy when it arrives.Best Alan
Seana
And Maxim says its the last one ever because they lose money, apparently. He should probably continue it as an ebook rather than just giving up...
Alan
I've said it for years: Dec Burke, Ken Bruen, Stu Neville, Eoin McNamee, Ger Brennan, Tana French, Brian McGilloway, Garbhan Downey, Colin Bateman etc. etc. are just as interesting and diverse as the Scandinavians...and, I have to say, a bit funnier.
I think that's probably right about the ebook. I have sold some, but it's only because I've read it. Mystery anthologies don't do all that well in general, except fot that Best American collection, and that's probably mostly because of the brand.
No, a lot funnier.
Well, Adrian's mentioned elsewhere that he is reading a pretty funny Icelandic one right now. But otherwise, Peter, I totally agree.
Looks like Best British Crime #10 will be available in the next few days in the U.S. In the meantime, it appears that Volumes 7, 8, and 9 are available in an omnibus volume, at least electronically. Burke, Neville, McGilloway et al. all turn up.
Seana
Yup. The Hitman's Guide To House Cleaning which I'm still enjoying as an audiobook. I wouldnt say that it was laugh out loud funny but it is funny none the less.
Peter
To be honest I'm a little more intrigued by the Lee Marvin book which seems to be an odd sort of idea for an anthology.
It's about the oddest anthology idea I've heard of. Where is it available? And how many times does hot coffee figure in the stories?
Peter
I dont know what features in the book as I havent seen it yet.
It'll be out in a couple of weeks and should be available from the usual places. Your buddy Roger Smith has a story in it.
More from Andrew Nette here: http://www.pulpcurry.com/2013/02/lee-an-anthology-of-fiction-inspired-by-lee-marvin/
The Lee Marvin one intrigues me too. At the same time, I'm wondering if I'll know enough about Mr. Marvin's oeuvre to understand it. I hope there's at least a passing nod to Cat Ballou.
Thanks. I'd looked but failed to find references to it.
The only Lee Marvin movies I know offhand are The Big Heat, Point Blank, and The Dirty Dozen. But I hope the stories are good enough to stand on their own, without Marvin knowledge on the part of the reader.
I'm skeptical of claims that anyone is a "larger-than-life character," particularly if that person was a Hollywood star. But I will still scour the book for clever hot-coffee references.
With the Parker movie out or due out soon, this seems an opportune time to discuss Lee Marvin's performance in Point Blank. I've seen his performance praised as the best in any movie based on a Parker novel. That may be right, and his performance was good. But I thought he projected anger and setting emotion more than Parker ever did in the books.
Peter
What Parker did in the books is neither here nor there. The movie stands and falls as a movie.
I remember watching Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line and thinking that it was a masterpiece. Then I read the book and realised that the book was the greatest war novel of the twentieth century and an even deeper and richer masterpiece. The two can't be compared. They exist in their own spheres and the criteria by which they should be judged should be the criteria of those spheres.
I based my Marvin story largely on this documentary John Boorman made about Lee. Part 1 and subsequent parts here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soA0_5oZ8LY
Part 1 has some good stuff about Point Blank.
Thanks for the Marvin documentary. I shall take a look.
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