John L. Williams

Daniel Woodrell obituary Author of ‘country noir’ novels, such as Winter’s Bone, set in the rural communities of the Ozark mountains

Thanks John, and great to read your memoir of Dan and Katie. You can find my obit here - www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines YouTube video by Tom T. Hall - Topic

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S.J. Parris - Traitor's Legacy
Andrew Martin - The Moquette Mystery
William Shaw - The Red Shore

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Kate Webb - Hollow Grave
Veronika Dapunt - Death and Other Occupational Hazards
Philip Gray - The House With 9 Locks
Louise Candlish - A Neighbour's Guide To Murder

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In an annual tradition - here's the top ten crime novels of the year as selected by the keenest reader I know - my mum Gillie. No particular order.

Stig Abell - The Burial Place
Maz Evans - That'll Teach Her
Rob Parker - The Troubled Deep

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Daniel Woodrell obituary Author of ‘country noir’ novels, such as Winter’s Bone, set in the rural communities of the Ozark mountains

I've written an obituary of the great Daniel Woodrell
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Thanks Sarah. Such a loss

Here's a link to the chapter I wrote about him in Back to the Badlands twenty years ago. It's long, but gives a sense of the man - and what we've lost with his passing. johnwilliams25.wixsite.com/website/dani...

A couple of times I spent time with him and his wife - fellow writer Katie Estill - out in West Plains, Missouri. And he always talked about wanting to come to Wales. Ah well

So sorry to hear about the death of Daniel Woodrell. Dan wrote one of the very finest novels of the last fifty years in Winter's Bone and another that's not far off in Tomato Red. And aside from that he was a really good guy.

No need!

The cover of hardback book “Heatwave” by John L Williams

Really looking forward to reading this today, seems appropriate given the weather!
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I'm pretty sure Goines didn't write all those posthumous books. It's just implausible and they read differently. But Nazel is just a guess, based on my sense of his style and his close involvement with the publishers... Will have to get that book - looks great.

An Appreciation: Joseph Gober Nazel Jr. (1944-2006) Joseph Nazel kept a pistol tucked in his desk, but he seldom showed it.

Just found a fascinating obituary of Nazel here - www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

Blimey. Is that a Holloway House? I've long suspected that Joe Nazel may have written the stream of posthumous Donald Goines novels ..

This is a good one. Am smug to say I smelt a rat straight away when sent it for review way back when...
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Radio Sohemia Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Radio Sohemia provides recordings of Q-and-As and talks hosted by the London-based Sohemian Society as well as interviews that aren’t staged in front of an audience. ...

You can hear me talking to Travis Elborough about the heatwave summer of 1976 here
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Here's some - bonus pulp fiction above!

Heatwave news from June 1976

Not from Exeter are you?

C'mon!

Thank you!

32 years ago today, Charlotte Greig did this fine piece on Moe Tucker in the Guardian (1 June 1993).
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Great - Thomas Wortche too?

Is she still in Berlin?

Thanks Jo!

Really enjoyed this interview

I really liked Room To Swing a long time ago

Thank you Faber & Faber for sending me this on, um, May 29. Never too early!