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On the Art of the Book Cover
The perfect cover Some of my earliest and fondest “book-memories” are of the kind of paperback books my father and uncles used to read. The kind of books I would find on tables and shelves in various...
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Writers and Their Typewriters
(iPhone photo by m.a.h. hinton) Bitter cold has returned to the North Country. Below zero nights and daytime highs in the single digits have chased us inside again. We are indoor people once again...
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Book Review: My Gun is Quick by Mickey Spillane
“What can I expect from you?” “Hell,” I said. My recent purchase of a Smith-Corona Super-Speed, led me to pick up Mickey Spillane again. Spillane was originally for me a guilty pleasure. His books the...
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Book Review: Vengeance is Mine!, by Mickey Spillane
Inspired by my purchase and use of a Smith-Corona Super-Speed I have been re-reading Mickey Spillane. And re-typing his opening paragraphs. I am not sure how long I can keep re-reading Spillane without...
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Typing Spillane – Poet of the Lonely Streets
I’m not an author, I’m a writer, that’s all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney. ~Mickey Spillane As I have said before, working on my...
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Typing Spillane: The Alpha and the Omega
“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.” ~Mickey Spillane I continue reading Spillane. This week I re-read his 5th novel, The Big Kill, published in 1951, four years...
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Poem Draft: “Hobbies”
(photo by m.a.h. hinton) I continue typing up drafts of poems old and new on my Smith-Corona Super-Speed. I have noticed over the years that there are seasons to the writing life: times of want and...
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Typing Spillane: Kiss Me Deadly
In a five year period, from 1947 to 1952 Mickey Spillane wrote six Mike Hammer novels. In that time period he became the biggest selling writer in the world. After completing his 6th Mike Hammer novel,...
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Book Review: I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
For the past six weeks I have been re-reading the original six Mike Hammer novels beginning with his second novel, My Gun is Quick. Today I take a look at his very first novel, I, the Jury. From the...
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Cover Art: Multi-Lingual Spillane
A committed… and commit-able… used-bookstore junkie, I always have my eye out not just for volumes of poetry, but also for old paperbacks with great covers. And though I usually read as much of the...
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