BSC Flashback – Black Crime Fiction
Another BSC Flashback. I figure I’m going sprinkle these in every now and then, sometimes due to current relevance (like the first involving our Esslemont material) or just to bring up a classic.
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Book Review – The Jones Men
Author: Verne E. Smith Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1974 In 1972 journalist Verne E. Smith wrote an article for Newsweek called Detroit’s Heroin Subculture which would become the basis for the novel The Jones Men which was published in 1974. It was named a New York Times Notable [...]
Black Crime Fiction: An Introduction
I. Introduction II. The Holy Trinity – Chester Himes, Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines III. Gone, Forgotten and Waiting for Discovery – Robert Deane Pharr & Clarence Cooper Jr. IV. The Best of the Rest V. Lost to History – Jerome Dyson Wright & Charlie Avery Harris VI. The tip of the Iceberg (but not [...]
