Links of Note
The Street Was Mine looks at the "tough guy" in hardboiled fiction and film noir. Die a Little attempts to explore the same terrain in fictional form, combining hardboiled and noir themes and styles (gritty urban atmospheres, crime, femme fatales, double crosses, betrayal, guilt) with the concerns of another popular 1940s-50s genre—the domestic melodrama—which concerns itself with "women's issues" of duty, sacrifice, passion, love and shame. Below is a collection of relevant resources in all of these areas. The Song Is You in turn takes on the lore and lure of Hollywood drawing heavily on film noir and Hollywood history, both official and unofficial--the stuff of both movie magazines and Hollywood Babylon. Queenpin is meant to call to mind the hardboiled novels of the 30s through '50s, offering a female twist on the classic underworld story of a legendary grifter and a young protégée. Tough guys are tough gals.
Contemporary Writers in the Noir/Hardboiled Tradition
(and some writers just too good not to include)
- Charles Ardai
- Ray Banks
- Mitchell Bartoy
- Ken Bruen
- Reed Farrel Coleman
- Gabriel Cohen
- Sean Doolittle
- Stona Fitch
- Alison Gaylin
- Sara Gran
- Allan Guthrie
- Vicki Hendricks
- Naomi Hirahara
- Charlie Huston
- Laura Lippman
- Craig McDonald
- Eddie Muller
- Cornelia Read
- Sandra Scoppettone
- SJ Rozan
- Jason Starr
- Jonathan Santlofer
- Theresa Schwegel
- Zoë Sharp
- Peter Spiegelman
- Wallace Stroby
- Duane Swierczynski
- Tribe
- Daniel Woodrell
Hardboiled/Crime Fiction and Noir on the Web
Sites of note:
- Hard Case Crime—Reprinting lost pulp classics and publishing new novels in the pulp tradition, all with glorious covers
- Noir Originals—Noir Zine, New Writers and more, overseen by superb noir novelist Allan Guthrie
- 1947 Project—Crime reporting from 1947 Los Angeles, the year of the infamous Black Dahlia murder
- On Bunker Hill—from the geniuses behind the 1947 Project. If you're interested in 1940s LA, stop here.
- Eddie Muller—Film noir historian (the "czar of noir") and novelist (The Distance, Shadowboxer)
- Hardboiled and Noir at Miskatonic University Press—includes active listserv and hardboiled slang dictionary, among other resources
- Hardboiled and Detective Fiction—resource site compiled by William Marling, author of Hardboiled Fiction.
- Thrilling Detective—all things private eye from the early days to the present, as well as new fiction
- Mystery*File—Crime Fiction Research Journal
- Film Noir Foundation/Noir City Film Festival—a non-profit focused on the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of film noir and on preserving films in danger of being lost forever.
Blogs with a noir/crime fiction focus:
- The Rap Sheet
- Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind—Premiere crime fiction portal
- Crimespot—A one-stop portal to some of the best mystery-writing blogs, updated four times daily
- Noircast—Brilliant hardboiled and noir podcasts
- Secret Dead Blog—by crime fiction author Duane Swierczynski
- Tribe—by hardboiled writer and NW Ohio native Tribe
- First Offenders—four mystery authors share first-book journeys
- Crime Beat Street—where regular joes can dish on their favorite hardboiled detectives
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