From the perspective of a veteran magazine guy like me, what novelist-editor Allan Guthrie (Hard Man, Two-Way Split) has been doing this year with his e-zine, Noir Originals, makes no sense whatsoever. Rather than issuing a complete set of contents, as he used to do, he’s now dribbling out bits and pieces of an issue, one at a time. At what point he stops feeding us chunks of the present edition, meaning that it’s complete, and moves on to the next one is anybody’s guess. I wonder if Guthrie even knows ...
The latest additions to his periodical-in-piecemeal: a reprint of David Laurence Wilson’s fine 1984 article from the Los Angeles Times about Edgar Award-winning writer William Campbell Gault (Don’t Cry for Me, 1952); and a new essay about femmes fatales, “Women, Sex and Guilt in Noir Fiction,” by crime-fictionist Damien Seaman.
Friday, September 07, 2007
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