‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’

27 Monday Jun 2011

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L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

L.A. Noire is styled like a detective movie of the 1940s. Aesthetically, it pays homage to film noir, while adapting new technologies like real-time action and multiple camera angles. Set in post-war Los Angeles, it also features a jazz soundtrack. Publication of an e-book of eight short stories by some of the world’s leading writers – in genres ranging from literary to pulp fiction – was announced in May. Each piece is set in 1947, the same year that casino owner Bugsy Siegel  and Elizabeth Short (‘The Black Dahlia’) were murdered. Continue reading →

Lives Like Loaded Guns

10 Friday Jun 2011

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Two new reviews posted at For Books’ Sake this week: Lyndall Gordon’s literary biography, Lives Like Loaded Guns – Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds, and Between Shades of Gray, a novel for young adults set in wartime Eastern Europe, by first-time author Ruta Sepetys.

‘Mad About Marilyn’ Spring Issue

09 Thursday Jun 2011

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My reviews of Cindy De La Hoz’s Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive and MM – Personal by Lois Banner are featured in the latest issue of the Mad About Marilyn fanzine, which also includes a vintage article, ‘…and the Lord Taketh Away’, from Modern Screen in 1957; a piece on Marilyn’s 1955 visit to USS Bennington; and a profile of photographer Douglas Kirkland.

If you would like to join the Mad About Marilyn Fan Club, please email Emma: emmadowning@blueyonder.co.uk