Rooting for the Louvre thieves? Here are seven books to read if you love art crime.
Rooting for the Louvre thieves? Here are seven books to read if you love art crime.
Don't read whatever read whatever horrible shit is in the NYT op-ed section today, read this wonderful essay on Chester Himes by S.A. Cosby instead (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/books/review/chester-himes-essential-harlem-detectives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU0.-rdn.sJSK4Z3zdqEi&bgrp=t&smid=url-share
I think this was the first blaxploitation film I saw as a kid in the 70s. Based on the Chester Himes books (which I strongly recommend), Coffin Ed (Raymond St. Jacques) and Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) are two badass cops out to protect Harlem. They have their sights set on Rev. Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart), who is running a "back-to-Africa" scam. When $87,000 is stolen from O'Malley's rally, Ed and Jones suspect it was staged... but nobody seems to know where the money is. With Redd Foxx, Cleavon Little, Helen Martin ("227"), and Vernee Watson. Great action-comedy that deserves more
#Books and me:
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes
I could go on and on....