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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: August 2015
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Tuesday, 25 August 2015. MAGNOLIA, YOU SWEET THING (a poem): SPRINGSTEEN, ANNIE and ME. Forty years ago today, Born To Run was released, and Bruce Springsteen. Along with us on the trip was the Annie of this poem, Annie Donnelly, whom I'd met while I was teaching summer school at Wesleyan. I'd just met Tom Disch, who was also teaching there, on the bus up to Middletown (I've written about that here). I've just moved house again, and. MAGNOLIA, YOU SWEET THING. The dew has burned away. It will be as b...
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: RAGNAR JONASSON'S SNOW BLIND
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Wednesday, 29 July 2015. RAGNAR JONASSON'S SNOW BLIND. Ari Thor is an oddly unfinished character, which may suit his relatively naiveté, but it stands in sharp contrast to the more telling bits of exposition the various suspects and victims receive. There's a fascinating dynamic between him and his boss, Tomas, whose live and let live attitude sometimes seems to take on a more sinister connotation, and sometimes seems almost comic: casting him in the film version is an amusing exercise. Film ed. Crim...
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: LAWLESS: BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL CONTINUES
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Wednesday, 1 July 2015. LAWLESS: BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL CONTINUES. Tracy Lawless has spent 18 months in the hole; locked up in a military prison, no contact with the outside world. Then he's handed the personal effects left behind by his brother, murdered nine months earlier; news the Army kept from Lawless. Two days later, he's gone: headed back to the city to avenge his brother's death, because that's what guys like him are supposed to do. Criminal Volume 2: Lawless. For any shooting star'.
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: MEMORIES OF FRANK GIFFORD
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Sunday, 9 August 2015. MEMORIES OF FRANK GIFFORD. The estimable Mike Rosen, former editor of Sport magazine, was along to write for him, like a third wheel on a honeymoon. I recall my mother telling me about Kathie Lee bragging about their sex life at some golf tournament ABC was covering; I believe that was the Friday a couple of my colleagues and I celebrated our promotions by destroying Caramba before returning to an empty office. And he was everything Exley worshipped, and more, and less. I remember ...
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: April 2015
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Thursday, 30 April 2015. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS AND ME: MY NFLUK COLUMN. Even if you're not an American football fan, the story of Lawrence Phillips, who's recently been accused of murdering his cellmate in prison, is a sad one. My experience with Lawrence, and a preview of the NFL Draft which takes place today, are in my Friday Monthly Tight End column at nfluk.com; you can find it here. Or, six weeks later, I've posted the whole piece here, though I do recommend my pretty accurate NFL Draft preview too:.
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: May 2015
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Sunday, 31 May 2015. JO NESBO'S BLOOD ON SNOW. On the surface, Blood On Snow. Reminds one of Headhunters. It's a piece of finely crafted writing, a slighter-seeming novel that may as good and more powerful than any he's written before. Movie rights have been sold, Leonardo DiCaprio is mentioned and would be all wrong for the role, but like Headhunters,. Will adapt well to film. If the well-judged book is just left alone. Blood On Snow by Jo Nesbo. Harvill Secker £12.99 ISBN 9781846558603. He'd worked his...
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: DEFLATEGATE: LETTING THE AIR OUT
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Thursday, 25 June 2015. DEFLATEGATE: LETTING THE AIR OUT. With Tom Brady's hearing with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell just completed, I went back and found this column I'd written, but not published, back in the end of May. It remains relevant, although you'll see by the update that the questions around the so-called 'deflategate' are even more unresolved now than they were then. There is a basic question in the 'deflategate' 'scandal' which has not even been addressed. Why? For any shooting star'.
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: June 2015
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Sunday, 28 June 2015. ROBERT WEINBERG'S DREAM OF MARS: A Guest Post. A DREAM OF MARS. Now I am fairly old, sixty-eight, and not in the best of health. In February 2012 I suffered totally unexpected kidney failure. Luckily that day I was being examined by my doctor. She rushed to me to the hospital and over the course of three days I had 67 excess pounds of fluid removed from my body. Remember these words of mine because they are going to come true. Along with “The Devil and Daniel Webster,̶...With To...
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IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: RICHARD LANGE WINS THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER: A JUDGE'S TALE
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Thursday, 2 July 2015. RICHARD LANGE WINS THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER: A JUDGE'S TALE. This was our short list, with the descriptions I wrote for the CWA's releases:. Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane 'Red Eye' (from Face Off. Dashiell Hammett 'The Hunter' ( The Hunter and Other Stories. Richard Lange 'Apocrypha' ( Sweet Nothing. Richard Lange 'Sweet Nothing' ( Sweet Nothing. Stuart Neville 'Juror 8' ( OxCrimes. And what if the boy accused of stabbing his father to death actually was guilty? What was fas...
