The Burnt Orange Heresy

The best Willeford---better even than Miami Blues, which is fun and clever but familiar and makes me think way too hard about the utter furriness of Alec Baldwin's chest hair c. 1990. What I love about BOH is what I love about the best of literary pulp: it finds a way to erase the high culture/low c......more

I read Charles Willeford’s four Hoke Mosely novels many years ago and thought they were among the best crime novels I’d ever read and, in the case of ‘Sideswipe ‘ simply one of the best novels. So, I decided to catch up with some of his other books. This one was interesting but somewhat disappointin......more

4.50 Stars (Rnd ⬆️) — Willeford is just such a marvel. That’s my takeout from this novel of complexity that somehow boasts both brute-force & sharp-incision-dissection. Very different from say ‘Shark infested Custard’, BOH is a novel about the choices we make & those who foolishly believe they do t......more

Kitap sanat eleştirmeni olduğunu söyleyen ve hayatını gayet sanat kaygısı içerisinde idame ettiren bir adamın hayatını anlatırken, Ayrıntı Yayınları'nın kara ayrıntı dizisine yakışır şekilde yavaş yavaş gerilimin tırmandığı ve hırsların ön plana çıktığı bir seyre dönüşür. "Hayatının dörtte üçünü düny......more

I remember reading this book because the poet Michael Weaver (not the well-known poet Michael Weaver but another Michael Weaver from San Diego) spoke so highly of the author. So I read the book. Then I too spoke highly of this author. When a really smart writer takes on a genre populated by mostly clon......more