Monday, May 28, 2007

Back from the Silent Dust

As we’ve noted before, novelist-editor Allan Guthrie seems to be rolling out new contents for his Noir Originals Webzine in piecemeal fashion, rather than as components of a new and complete edition. The latest addition to this collection is an interesting retrospective about Bruno Fischer, written by novelist Ed Lynsky (The Blue Cheer).

In case you didn’t know (and I formerly belonged in that camp), Fischer was German-born and the editor of America’s official Socialist Party weekly paper before he embarked on a novel-writing career, eventually turning out 25 innovative novels, among them The Restless Hands (1949) his last, The Evil Days (1973).

Read more here about why Lynsky thinks Fischer is “due a revival.”

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