The Critic Inside Me
I’m going on holiday in a couple of days, so I won’t be blogging for the next few weeks. One of the reasons I’m grateful to get away for a while is that it gives me an excuse not to go see Michael...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Jim Thompson
I’ve just returned to the UK after holidaying in Thailand. One of the many highlights of the trip was a visit to the beautiful Bangkok house of the American silk trader Jim Thompson. Thompson (not to...
View ArticleThe Killer Inside Me and the Problem of Perspective
David Hering is writing his PhD thesis at the University of Liverpool, where he is currently researching the works of David Foster Wallace and Mark Z. Danielewski. His literary reviews have appeared in...
View ArticleJim Thompson, Crime Fiction, and the American West
I have just finished reading Jim Thompson’s second novel Heed the Thunder (1946), a western set in early twentieth-century Nesbraska. When I first came across the book I initially thought it must have...
View ArticleMegan Abbott, Chris Mooney, Gillian Flynn and Ryan David Jahn: On Writing
Friday at Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Festival, John Connolly artfully guided a discussion titled ‘America’s Got Talent’ with four writers outwardly tied by nationality; however, as was discovered...
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