ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF MARK WISNIEWSKI'S NOIR NOVEL 'WATCH ME GO'

Win a copy of what noted scribe Salman Rushdie calls "Pure, muscular storytelling ... irresistible." Every now and again a scribe comes along that grabs the industry by the short and curlys. Mark Wisniewski is THAT kind of scribe. In fact, 'Watch Me Go,' was one of the most-anticipated books of the year, receiving advance praise not only from Rushdie but Daniel Woodrell, Ben Fountain, Rebecca Makkai, Dan Chaon, Christine Sneed, Tim Johnston, and...

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'BLOODLINE' REVIEW: THIS SOUTHERN NOIR FROM NETFLIX SMOLDERS

'We're not bad people, we just did a bad thing ...' I wasn't expecting to like 'Bloodline,' the new sweeping Netflix family drama that debuted March 20. After all, the last thing any of us needs is another show to clog our queue and I seriously wanted to hate it. Boy, was I wrong. Netflix clearly hits a homerun when it comes to this new drippy Southern noir. Granted it may not have the water-cooler chatter of an "Orange is the New Black" or...

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'AMERICAN CRIME' KEEPS THE FERGUSON FLAMES BURNING

'American Crime' follows four different subplots unified by a central crime: The murder of a veteran and the vicious attack and rape of his wife. EDITORIAL NOTE: The following review is from guest blogger Spencer Blohm, a freelance entertainment and culture writer from the Midwest. His taste for crime shows started as a young child watching Law & Order when he probably shouldn’t have been and has only grown from there. He lives and works in...

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DYLAN NOIR? THE BARD DOES FRANK SINATRA ON NEW DISC; CHANNELS TCM IN NEW VIDEO

Note: The following is a piece I wrote for my web site NJ.com. I'm embedding it here with two new pieces of information or assets - a film noir video above for the tune "The Night We Called It A Day" with Sinatra's recording below. Three days before Frank Sinatra's 99th birthday on Dec. 12, Columbia Records announced that Bob Dylan's 36th studio disc "Shadows in the Night" will be a selection of tunes culled from The Chairman's "Great American Songbook." Set to be released Feb. 3, the set will boast 10 tracks and were conceived with a different...

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