Tag: Dorothy B Hughes

• Reading journal: Ringing in 2016

  This year, I’ve decided to post snippets from my ongoing reading journal that aren’t full reviews, just thoughts about what I’m reading and what I want to read. This will possibly be terribly dull; I’ll let you decide. Here’s what I’ve been reading since the start of the year — a lot of short books!…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 10, 2016

  Reading

  2016, amreading, Big books, Black Sun, Dashiell Hammett, deserts, Dorothy B Hughes, Edward Abbey, Noir, Paolo Bacigalupi, Reading, Short novels, Southwestern fiction, The End Is Now, The Expendable Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Water Knife, zombies

• Recommended reading: The Expendable Man

  This week I’m recommending The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes, a crime noir classic recently reissued by New York Review Books. A young doctor driving from California to a family wedding in Phoenix, Arizona, sees a teenage girl hitchhiking on a desert road and stops to pick her up, setting in motion a chain of events that…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 9, 2016

  Reading

  Classics, Dorothy B Hughes, New York Review Books, Noir, The Expendable Man