The Violent World of Parker

The Parker Novels by Richard Stark (AKA Donald E. Westlake), other works by DEW, and crime fiction and film in general

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I am doing some research using Grok and it keeps using VWOP as a source. I hope I do a good job answering my questions!

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James Reasoner (@james53jr ) takes a quick look at Donald Westlake's Dancing Aztecs at his Rough Edges blog.

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New blog post - Dipping my toe back in:
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Holy cow! This movie has been neglected for so long that I figured my old Warner Archive DVD was going to be its only appearance on physical media.

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@LouisXIVSunKing Ah! I should have had more confidence that it was covered somewhere. Be aware that an antiquarian bookshop in Tennessee believes it to be worth its weight in gold, yet still had it priced lower than ABE.

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Have I seen this one before? Not sure. At the price they were asking, I won't be seeing it on my shelf anytime soon.

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HCC Westlake titles: Double Feature, Help I Am Being Held Prisoner, Brothers Keepers, The Actor (AKA Memory), Somebody Owes Me Money, Forever and a Death, Call Me a Cab, Castle in the Air, The Comedy is Finished, The Cutie, 361

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All 11 of Hard Case Crime's Donald Westlake e-book titles are on sale for $1.99 until the end of February. (Note that Kobo owners like me have to search using middle initial - Donald E. Westlake.)

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Rest in peace to Robert Duvall, who played the Parker character in The Outfit, one of the best of the Parker adaptations. (Some would strike the words "one of" in the preceding sentence.)

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FINALLY. Point Blank will be released by the Criterion Collection on April 21 on 4K & Blu-ray.
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Hey, folks...the site is back up. I thought I had paid all the bills but missed one.

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@BishsBeat looks at the Parker-inspired Bruder Heist series at Complications Always Ensue.

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Oh, great! I had tentative plans to work on a similar post on the Play Dirty references at some point, but delighted not to have to. 😉

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Shane Black's Parker movie, Play Dirty, is out today. Unfortunately, I won't be watching it this evening, but I'll see it before the weekend is up.

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Play Dirty writer/director Shane Black interviewed at Tough Business: A Parker Site: https://t.co/Sr8qHwBms4

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J. Robert Lennon at London Review of Books on new Elmore Leonard editions from Penguin.

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Paul Bishop (@BishsBeat) launches his new Substack page with a flurry of posts on Donald Westlake and related. Parker! Dortmunder! Wyatt! (Who is Wyatt? Find out!)

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That other Parker site has a new piece up about Play Dirty with some previously undisclosed details. Check it out.

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New blog post - Trailer for new Parker film: Shane Black’s Play Dirty

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