Topic: George Pelecanos
Kriston Capps has this week's cover story with a profile of Adrian Parsons, the performance artist and activist who became a symbol of the Occupy...
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Houghton Mifflin began publishing "The Best American Short Stories " Otto Penzler is the editor of the series, and George Pelicanos is the editor of the 2008 edition. Each year Otto Penzler, with the help of a colleague, reads 100s of stories and ...
Although Shoedog has recently been published this year as a 'Serpent's Tail Classic' book, it was actually written a good few years ago by the author George Pelecanos, who is also one of the writers on the hit TV series 'The ...
At one point in this gritty novel, one of the characters says, " Lorenzo, the more realistic of the two, has to frequently remind Mark that there are some dogs that cannot be rehabilitated or made adoptable, so scarred are they from the ...
It's easy to see why George Pelecanos admires Don Carpenter's 1966 novel, Hard Rain Falling. Carpenter's unvarnished style, empathy for the underclass, candor about race, and detailed descriptions of prisons and juvenile institutions all echo Pelecanos' interests as a ...
In his new novel "The Way Home," George Pelecanos portrays a father's worst nightmare-a son whose bad behavior lands him in juvenile detention. What distinguishes this story is that Pelecanos focuses on what life looks like after the boy reaches his ...
Alan Furst's espionage novels have a melancholic tinge, depending, as they so often do, on the debacles of recent history and, on a personal level, on the mechanics of betrayal. The dashing but damaged war hero, Colonel Jean-Franois Mercier, is France ...
The biggest problem with the new anthology D.C. Noir 2 is its title. The "2" implies that the book is merely a rehash of the street-level fiction that George Pelecanos assembled for 2005's D.C. Noir, and the term "noir ...
Alex Pappas is a second-generation Greek-American who works in his father's diner. Raymond Monroe is an African-American teen who looks up to his straight-arrow older brother, James. The year is 1972, and these three are enjoying their glory days until an ...
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George Pelecanos & David Simon discuss writing ...
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GreekReporter.com -- Exclusive Interview -- George Pelecanos is riding the wave ...2010-04-02
