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One and Done: Vern E. Smith, The Jones Men

By Eric Beetner

July 21, 2016

The Jones Men was a thrilling novel to discover. A lost “cult” novel from the 1970s, written by veteran journalist Vern E. Smith, it is a story of the drug trade on the streets of Detroit, and it absolutely blew me away when I read it forty years after its initial publication. The novel crackles…

Movie poster for Django Unchained

Black Pulp Fictions: Yesterday and Today

By Gary Phillips

March 14, 2013

Filmmaker and sometime mystery writer Nelson George (The Plot Against Hip Hop and Night Work) wrote a commentary in the February 15, 2013, New York Times, “Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible.”  The piece focused on the portrayal of black leading men in recent movies, including Quentin Tarantino’s lauded and lambasted Django Unchained, for…

Tom Waits, the best crime writer you’ve never read

Crime Waits

By Eric Beetner

September 22, 2011

I have a favorite crime writer. I bet you’ve heard of him. But you may not be able to come up with his name. Here, have a sample and see if you can guess who it is: Well it’s 9th and Hennepin and all the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes and the moon’s…

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