newcritics

Over at newcritics.com, it’s time to close the front door, turn off the lights ’round the bar, hang up the closed sign, and walk out the back way for the last time. This little group culture blog, which began as an experiment in the winter of 2006-07, is putting its xml to rest and [...]

A couple of weeks back, I met a friend for lunch downtown and wondered at the choice - an East Village UK-style pub, replete with an iconic red phone box out front. Fair enough, but an interesting choice of venue. I was early and perusing the menu when I realized at an instant why we [...]

Some people are going to be sadder to hear the news about Donald E. Westlake.  Other people are going to be sadder to hear about Richard Stark.
Westlake and Stark are both dead.  They died together, over the weekend, killed by heart attacks, while vacationing down in Mexico.
Course they died together.
They were the same guy.
Same guy, [...]