The Electric Mayhem: Ravens, This Wicked World and Almost Gone
This edition of the Electric Mayhem spotlights the debut novel of Richard Lange, This Wicked World, the first novel in 14 years from George Dawes Green, Ravens, and another offering in the inaugural New Pulp Press series, Almost Gone by Stan Richards.
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The Electric Mayhem: Shadow Season, Jump and Revolver
In this installment of The Electric Mayhem, Brian shares a few thoughts on Shadow Season by Tom Piccirilli, Jump by Tim Maleeny, and Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick.
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The Electric Mayhem: Sweets, The Creed of Violence and The Water’s Edge
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem, I take a look at a variety of books. A throwback street book by Andre Williams, Sweets and Other Stories; Norwegian crime writer Karin Fossum’s The Water’s Edge; and the enigmatic Boston Teran’s The Creed of Violence.
The Electric Mayhem: The Singer, The Devil’s Staircase and Scalped: High Lonesome
I’ll be switching back to a column format for awhile in order to accommodate an increasingly busy schedule and to try and get caught up.
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem, I look at The Singer by Cathi Unsworth, The Devil’s Staircase by Helen Fitzgerald, and Scalped: High Lonesome by Jason Aaron and RM Guera.
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The Electric Mayhem: Notes on Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
I’m picking my way through Inherent Vice, and I’m not even quarter of the way through it yet but I wanted to post some informal thoughts.
By the end of the first chapter I was largely underwhelmed. I thought that the main character, Doc Sportello, was a doofus, and I didn’t care at all what he was going to do or what was in store for his future. This can be a problem when we are talking about a protag.
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The Electric Mayhem: Richie Dagger’s Crime
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem I look at Vanilla Ride by Joe Lansdale, Engelbrecht Again! by Rhys Hughes and Fugue State by Brian Evenson.
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The Electric Mayhem: Furnace Room Lullaby
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem I take a look at Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio by Amara Lakhous, Private Midnight by Kris Saknussemm and In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami.
The Electric Mayhem: Cuban Dope
This edition of The Electric Mayhem looks at Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano, Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty and Dope Thief by Dennis Tafoya.
The Electric Mayhem: Lazy Weekend Video Edition
I don’t even know if people watch these things or not but here is another cool videos installment of The Electric Mayhem.
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The Electric Mayhem: Lazy Weekend video edition
This edition of The Electric Mayhem brings together another collection of shorts and videos.
The Electric Mayhem: California Snow
This edition of The Electric Mayhem covers Powers: Secret Histories; The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno and The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry.
The Electric Mayhem: Lazy Weekend video edition
We’ll get back to Conversations with the Bookless soon. Here are a few video’s that I recently came across that are interesting for various reasons.
