Rooting for the Louvre thieves? Here are seven books to read if you love art crime.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://lithub.com/rooting-for-the-louvre-thieves-here-are-seven-books-to-read-if-you-love-art-crime/

#VendrediLecture
Lu aussi (la semaine dernière): "The Real Cool Killers" de #ChesterHimes (Penguin 2021 [1959]. Assez incroyable de constater qu'à la fin des années 1950 cet auteur pouvait imaginer son intrigue policière autour de jeunes afro-américains de Harlem qui se déguisent en Arabes pour intimider les Juifs du quartier ! Himes c'est beaucoup d'humour décomplexé, de second degré et un évident plaisir d'écriture qui trotte longtemps dans la tête du lecteur.
A Chester Himes Appreciation by S.A. Cosby

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

The New York Times

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

#books #chesterhimes #reading #crimefiction #writing

A Chester Himes Appreciation by S.A. Cosby

Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.

The New York Times
Un 12 de noviembre
muere el escritor,
🖊️#ChesterHimes
(Missouri,1909- Alicante,1984)
Empezó a escribir #NovelaNegra en Francia.
Su serie de #novelas con los violentos detectives;
'Ataúd Ed Johnson' y 'Sepulturero Jones',
le coloca en lugar de honor, entre los maestros del género.
A ★★★★ review of Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

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....