“Street Scene” from James Farrell’s collection “Chicago Stories” is a surprisingly vivid portrayal of street life in suburban Chicago
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How to Speak Noir is a nice clip in itself, great in its noir mood and visuals. It’s also the trailer of a noir film, Hotel Noir, regrettably not as great
BROKEN TIME BLUES (Ed. by Jaym Gates & Erika Holt) Although published only in 2011, this anthology of dieselpunk astories is already a classic of the genre. What is Dieselpunk? A sibling to Steampunk.
“Whatchu need today?” he asked in his think Italian accent.
Charlie walked closer to him, careful not to put his hands on the blood streaked counter where Carlo slices and dices the various meets. He said softly, “Casually look at your door. Are there two guys standing outside right now?” Charlie then raised his voice a…
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato
One morsel review : Fast, I’d nearly say light-hearted adventure, if it weren’t a noir. Heavily action-based, it involves a mystery – hey, after all, the main character is a sleuth - and a lot more potentials then the story plays out.
The Troubleshooter - New Heaven Blues Case
Bard Constantine
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Genre: dieselpunk
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Mick Troubble, detective, finds…
“The Wise Man Says” is the first of the Troubleshooter’s adventrues, a dieselpunk, noir sf series.
Back in March, Crispian Thurlborn tagged me for this challenge to list my 10 favourite screen characters. Because I was already very busy with the AtoZ Challenge, I couldn’t do it right away, but now here I am ready to oblige. Thanks Crispian for being this patient.
You can check out Crispisn’s list here… and it’s well…
I've discovered Unwoman thanks to Aaron Sikes, who mentioned her on Twitter.
It’s true that dieselpunk is a visual genre above all. Most of it is created by comics, illustrations and films. One of the reasons why Unwoman caught my attention is her video’s visuals. I like the atmosphere she creates, that undoubtedly reto feeling, that…
“The Purloined Ledger” is part of the dieselpunk anthology “Broken Time Blues” and of the ongoing series by Ari Marmell’s about fae detective Mick Oberon living his adventures in 1920s Chicago (a story from the Broken Time Blues dieselpunk anthology)
My first AtoZ Challenge is over… and I enjoyed it a lot!
Don’t get me wrong, it was a challenge. There had been days in the middle of the month, I thought I couldn’t possibly do it (bit like when you write a novel), and there had been moments I had to push myself so…
You can’t be too surprised about the many expressions that meant ‘drunk’ in the Twenties. Zozzled is one of them, just like the more known ossified