#pulp noir

[arcadebroke]

[2087]

[spacenoirdetective]

Jerome Rozen (brother to George Rozen) cover art for "Detective Story Magazine", July 1929

[dadaonice]

Poison Ivy

[judgeitbyitscover]

The Comedy is Finished by Donald E. Westlake

Cover art by Gregory Manchess

Hard Case Crime, February 2012

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. 

Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the field. And not the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army, who've decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their cause back to life...

[godardsghostheterodoxperv]

[harrynordlinger]

2019

[filmnoirfoundation]

I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s

Eventbrite - Library of America presents I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s - Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Ready some free Christmas noir fun?

LOA Live presents I’m Dreaming of a Noir Christmas: Classic Crime Thrillers of the 1960s

With Geoffrey O’Brien, Sarah Weinman, Gene Seymour, and David Lehman Tuesday, December 5th

6:00 to 7:00 pm Eastern

To cap LOA LIVE’s fall season, a killer lineup of panelists explores classic crime thrillers of the 1960s, from Donald Westlake-writing-as-Richard Stark’s taut smash-and-grab heist novel The Score to Patricia Highsmith’s eerie potboiler The Tremor of Forgery.  

Join Geoffrey O’Brien, editor of Crime Novels of the 1960s, along with noir maven Sarah Weinman (The Real Lolita), cultural critic Gene Seymour, and poet David Lehman (The Mysterious Romance of Murder) for an arresting dive into nine astonishingly inventive novels that pulse with the energies of a turbulent, transformative decade. 

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