C&C in July

In less than a month, my Substack newsletter Cocktails and Crime has racked up subscribers in the triple digits. Thanks to everyone who has signed up. If you haven’t, there’s no time like the present. Here’s what you’ve been missing.

1. Introductions

2. My look at Library of America’s Crime Novels: Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964

3. LOA’s Crime Novels: Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969

4. On my feature story about Walter Matthau in the current issue of Noir City magazine, and William Redfield’s Letters from an Actor

5. I spin the Dial of Destiny and weigh in on the international capers Gold Brick and The Siberia Job

6. Steven Soderbergh’s SF/comedy web series Command Z, paired with a suitable cocktail

Substack Season

Short version: I’ve got a new Substack called Cocktails and Crime, which will be the home for most of my ramblings going forward, so if you’re at all interested in whatever thoughts wander into my head, you should subscribe to it.

Upon the advice of friends whom I trust, I have taken the plunge and hung out a shingle at Substack. The numbers here at the blog have held steady over the last few years, but like so much in life, they aren’t what they used to be. All the action is at Substack, and the cool kids are hanging out there as well. Based on concrete examples from people in the know, I started Cocktails and Crime. Which will pretty much be this blog in newsletter form.

I’m not closing up shop here; I have too many fond memories of the ol’ internet homestead to abandon it. My plan is to use this site to promote my work whenever it appears, and on occasion cross-post some of the longer entries after they’ve debuted on Substack.

The first post is up as of today. But again, the best way to keep up is to subscribe.