Robert Polito

Pulp Nonfiction: A Guide to Studying Hardboiled Crime

By Jake Hinkson

May 11, 2014

You know you’re officially a mystery fanatic when you start reading books about books. Luckily, over the years many studies of hardboiled and noir crime fiction have been published to meet the needs of just these kind of fanatics. Here’s a short guide to some of the best. 1. “The Simple Art of Murder” by…

Jim Thompson, Alive And Well...or not.

The Nothing Man: Jim Thompson in Hollywood, Part One

By Richard Z. Santos

September 3, 2011

Crime fiction and crime films are helplessly entwined, and after a certain point it’s impossible to tell which influenced the other more. Sure you can’t talk about the creation of film noir without acknowledging Dashiell Hammett, or James Cain and the other tough-guy writers of the 1920s and 1930s. But at the same time you…