You’re reading a novel. Great, good, indifferent; in any event, one that provides enough incentive to keep reading. And then you hit the chapter where the author lost track of what he was doing. This is not to be confused with the mere interesting controlled digression, like a red herring character in a murder mystery, […]
Look, I know this may be as surprising to you as it is to me. But Rex Reed does not quite scrape the bottom of the barrel. Not since the creation of the internet, at least. Since then, every yutz who has ever been within fifty meters of a movie can start a review blog, […]
Originally published on Facebook 1 November 2017. Spare me your wholly uncomprehending generalizations about how people who like horror or crime fiction, who read or watch (or write) narratives about bad people, are doing so only because it feeds whatever inhuman or evil impulses they have. James M. Cain was not writing for an audience […]