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Prudence Couldn’t Swim: A Publishers Weekly Review
Publisher’s WeeklyNovember 2012 At the start of Kilgore’s funky, funny first mystery, white ex-con Calvin Winter discovers the body of…
Prudence Couldn’t Swim: A Review
By Seth SandronskyNewsReview.comNovember 8th, 2012 In the ’70s, political activist James Kilgore, wanted on federal explosives charges, hid from the…
James Kilgore Interview in the London Times
By Gavin EvansLondon Times2010 Gavin Evans, a South African-born journalist who was part of the ANC underground structures during the…
Prisoners and Race: PW Talks with James Kilgore
by Bob HahnPublisher’s WeeklySeptember 21, 2012 James Kilgore’s first crime novel, Prudence Couldn’t Swim, charts the efforts of a white…
BSC Review of The Jook
June 14th, 2009 by NerdOfNoirBSC Review There’s only one word for Gary Phillips’ The Jook and that word is fucking…
Shots Magazine Reviews the Jook
By Ayo AnotadeShots Magazine(Reiew of 1st edition of The Jook) Welcome to the destructive world and lifestyle of Zelmont Raines,…
It’s Gary Phillips’s World
BSC Review July 31, 2009 2009 is the year of Gary Phillips. A spate of releases confirms what some already…
The Jook in The Denver Times
By Benjamin WhitmerDenver Times Jim Thompson, a writer who Gary Phillips greatly admires, once summed up crime fiction’s worldview with…
The Underbelly: A Booklist Review
By Vanessa BushBooklistNovember 15, 2010 Mulgrew Magrady, a nearly homeless Vietnam vet, steps in to issue a warning when a…