Again, more anticipation from those I anticipate.
Winter's Bone, the film, is striking a chord with the movie going public this summer and I hope it brings a slew of new readers to the cult of Daniel Woodrell, who is looking forward to:
Pinckney Benedict’s Miracle Boy. Buying another Bo Ramsey CD. Reading Dennis Lehane’s Moonlight Mile. Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding. The new volume of poetry from Al Maginnes
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I wrote about John McFetridge in an earlier post and was really looking forward to the television show The Bridge that he had a hand in this summer. Looked like an ambitious cop drama along the lines of The Wire. Sadly, it’s already been cancelled, but his novels can still and should be read. Like, now.
McFet: I'm looking forward to a lot of books; Charlie Stella's, Johnny Porno, Stuart Neville's follow-up to The Ghosts of Belfast, Collusion and I understand Elmore Leonard has a new novel, Djibouti about a Somali pirate in New Orleans coming out soon. I'm also looking forward to a few TV shows; the new season of Mad Men starting July 25th, a new conspiracy theory show, "Rubicon" starting on August 1st and "Boardwalk Empire" on HBO starting September 19th.
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Another Ransom Notes piece was dedicated to South African novelist Roger Smith. Now that the world has packed up and left his country after the big ol’ soccer party, (that’s what it’s called, right?) he can finally set his sights on these:
As a great Elmore Leonard fan—and an African—I’m looking forward to the October release of the master’s latest, Djibouti, a modern-day pirate tale set off the coast of East Africa.
Michael Winterbottom’s movie based on the classic Jim Thompson novel, The Killer inside Me, hasn’t reached South Africa yet, but I’ve been following the international reviews with interest—particularly the debate around the graphic depiction of violence against women. I can’t wait to see it.
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Anthony Neil Smith is the author of four novels including the Billy Laffite books Yellow Medicine and Hogdoggin'. He is also founding editor of the seminal online crime journal Plots With Guns.
ANS is looking forward to: Breaking Bad season 3 DVD. I watched the first two seasons on DVD and loved them. Now, I *tried* to watch Season 2 episode to episode on AMC, but it was so friggin' tense I gave up and waited for the discs. So, thus for the 3rd.
More Louie. As many episodes as it can go before they run out of ideas. A truly genius-level show.
The combined punch of Shawn Ryan and Craig Brewer for the pilot of Terriers, and Ryan's own Ride Along. I know The Shield was a once in a lifetime ka-pow grand slam, but these guys can bring it again, can't they? Please?
AMC's The Walking Dead series. I've got the comic collections on hold at the local library, hoping they'll get them for me before the show begins this fall. Popular Books. Vol. 1 is still on hold after a month and a half. Zombie movies just don't dig in enough. But a whole zombie series, alright. (Could've been Babylon Fields, but alas, it was never picked up.)
Pretty much anything from the publishing imprints Mulholland Books and Reagn Arthur Books. I mean, two big rosters. C'mon (Daniel) Woodrell, (Megan) Abbott, (George) Pelecanos, and (Duane) Swyzzzzzski (Swierczynski) --what've you got for us next?
Also: NoirCon 2 in Philly.
What are you looking forward to?
Jedidiah Ayres writes fiction and keeps the blog Hardboiled Wonderland.
