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A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

It all makes for a rather melancholy and -- in its complicated investigations and its details -- oddly wending-all-over-the-place novel, but also an interesting...

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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)

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The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

I usually stray away from noir-themed books due to their very nature, but this book intrigued me based on the plot. Like all noir novels, this is a bleak and de...

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Nickel Plated by Aric Davis

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

One of those experiments that works well for some, not at all for others, but can be appreciated by many. You may or may not buy the premise, but the unique st...

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The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 1 Comment

An interesting literary novella that bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. Well done characters and setting but something of an awkward shift to...

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This Is How You Fall by Keith Dixon

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Dixon brings a literary sensibility to the story even as he uses these familiar structures and blends in the noir and heist elements. It is the elegance with w...

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Little Elvises (The Junior Bender Series) by Timothy Hallinan

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Junior Bender joins Poke Rafferty and Simeon Grist as Hallinan characters sure to have a cult following.

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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