Introducing: the Ellroycast
The debut episode of a podcast about all things James Ellroy, featuring Son of Griff and…
Year of the Month: David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane on Agatha Christie’s 1934.
1934 turned out to be a banner year for Agatha Christie. Fourteen years into her…
Karel Čapek’s “NOETIC” TRILOGY (Year of the Month)
A shocking murder disrupts the placid surface of a small Bohemian farming community. The mangled…
Year of the Month: Persia on ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
“You should have caught us in better times. We were purists then.” Has any playwright…
Year of the Month: Miller on COLD HAND IN MINE
An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time.” — Bob…
Year of the Month: Miller on HOUSE OF STAIRS
Beware — this is also a House of SPOILERS. A brain, an athlete, a basket…
Year of the Month: Persia on JAMAICA INN
“Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In the old days…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Blood’s a Rover
“All literature created out of a conscious political aim in the long run creates weakness…
Hell hath no fury: THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Year of the Month)
(NOTE: “The Queen of Spades” is nearly two hundred years old, but if you don’t…