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Noir-omancer | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. March 12, 2015. March 12, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. By William Gibson is one of my favorite novels. It was published in 1984 but I didn’t get around to reading it until 1990. By then its companion novels in the “Sprawl Trilogy” (. And the fanciful hacker or “data cowboy” argot. His vision of weakened governments kow-towing to an international corporate elite, shared by many post-modern writers, only gets closer to reality with each passing year. The Bret Pack →. Enter your comment here.
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The Bret Pack | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. March 18, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. Was just twenty-one when his debut novel. Was published in 1985. I picked it up for a buck at a library book sale in 1998 and got my first taste of his particular brand of noir. Just last week I picked up another effort from Mr. Ellis. For two bucks at a thrift shop. Was published in 2010 and is the sequel to. And Jim Thompson in. The Killer Inside Me. I can’t say that. One Man’s Troubles →. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You are c...
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Your Noirrespondent | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. That’s me, Mark C. Your noir-correspondent. Look for news, travel tales, and other noir-ish bits from time to time on this site. I’ll keep an updated links list on this page (click boldface. In Philadelphia 29 October. Book review for Out of the Gutter On-line. Book launch event in San Francisco 27 July 2013. 8220; Whisky Tales. 8221; my Scotland travel memoir ( not. One thought on “ Your Noirrespondent. Nancy C. O'Connor. March 19, 2016 at 12:46 PM. Great to get in the line again!
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Summer of Darkness, part two | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. Summer of Darkness, part two. Summer of Darkness, part two. August 6, 2015. August 24, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. Since my previous post. About TCM’s Summer of Darkness. Film festival we managed to squeeze in a few more. We had to watch. Again that one is a classic of the genre. Who can argue with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner? William Conrad and Charles McGraw, who play the hit men of the title, give particularly menacing performances. After that it was. The Lady in the Lake. Another Bur...
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Fiction | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. You can find my work here (click boldface. Out of the Gutter. Magazine, issues 2. 8220;Tweaker”) and 4. 8220;Lonnie’s Ride”). My parody of the hard-boiled P.I. genre told in mini-saga form (via box.com. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Out of the Gutter.
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June | 2015 | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. June 18, 2015. June 18, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. Is running a film noir festival called Summer of Darkness. Every Friday in June and July. So far I’ve had the chance to see. Tomorrow is Another Day. The movies run from 9:00 am until midnight. From 5:00 pm on the inimitable Eddie Muller. Theory. There was also the Hays Code. So far my favorite movie is. There’s a frenetic edge to the thing that keeps your nerves jangling and the extraordinary performance of Peggy Cummins digs deep i...
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May | 2015 | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. The Buying of Lot 9. May 4, 2015. May 14, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. It came in the mail on Saturday:. Real property in the City of Yreka . . . Lot 9, according to the plat of “Souza Subdivision, Block 57” . . . all that portion beginning at a point on the Easterly line of said Lot 9 . . . THE UNDERSIGNED GRANTOR(S) DECLARE(S) . . . FOR A VALUABLE CONSIDERATION, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged . . . hereby GRANT(s) to . . . A little over a week after that we were signing the final ...
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One Man’s Troubles | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. One Man’s Troubles. One Man’s Troubles. March 25, 2015. April 30, 2015. Mark C. O'Connor. The Ghosts of Belfast. Is the American title of Northern Irish writer Stuart Neville. 8216;s debut novel,. Which was first published in the UK in 2009. I picked up a copy when I attended NoirCon. Last fall. I got to meet Mr. Neville briefly and he signed my copy and posed for a picture. You can see my write-up of that here. The Ghosts of Belfast. The Ghosts of Belfast. The Ghosts of Belfast. Is rea...
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The High Country | Mark C. O'Connor
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Mark C. O'Connor. I live in Siskiyou County. California. At 6,347 square miles (over four million acres) it is the fifth-largest in the state. There were a mere 44,900 residents as of the last census, meaning about seven souls per square mile (or 90 acres per person). It ranges in elevation. Here’s a map. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Join 468 other followers.
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More thoughts on Inglourious Basterds | blognarian
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Random musings and personal obsessions of a movie critic no longer on sabbatical. More thoughts on Inglourious Basterds. Inglourious Basterds was among the many movies I missed during my time away from the daily reviewing grind. I finally caught up with it on DVD (review here. But as usual I’ve got a few more thoughts to share. 3 Oddly enough enough I would have enjoyed Basterds more without the actual Basterds. So you get a bunch of rogue Jews who like to scalp Nazis (and one who swings a mean Louis...
