By Seth SandronskyNewsReview.comNovember 8th, 2012 In the ’70s, political activist James Kilgore, wanted on federal explosives charges, hid from the…
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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…
My Current Publisher Crush Has Got to Be PM Press’s Switchblade Line
By Jedidiah-AyresRansom Notes: The B&N Mystery BlogSeptember 2011 Sure we’ve all got our favorite series and authors, but I want…
Poor Rural White People: The Group It’s Acceptable to Demean
By Barry Graham Yesterday, M.V. Moorhead invited me to go to a screening of Creature with him, but I didn’t get his message in…
Effective Self-Defense Includes Never Talking to Cops
By Barry Graham Benjamin Whitmer brought my attention to this essay on self-defense by Sam Harris. It’s a fairly good piece, and…