Steven Nester

Crime Fiction: Bloody Martini
by William Kotzwinkle

March 13, 2023 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a New York-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Wallace Johnson’s 2018 non-fiction book, The Feather Thief.) American writer William Kotzwinkle won plentiful praise for his wryly humorous 2021 […]

Non-Fiction: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

June 25, 2018 J. Kingston Pierce 1

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Stephen Mack Jones’ debut crime novel, August Snow.) While on a fly-fishing trip to New Mexico in 2011, author Kirk Wallace Johnson […]

Crime Fiction: August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones

April 24, 2017 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Shirley Barrett’s debut historical novel, Rush Oh!) “Being from Detroit, I’ve never quite trusted happiness,” says the eponymous August Snow, whose name […]

Fiction: Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett

April 28, 2016 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine.) Rush Oh! (Little, Brown), a first novel by Australian filmmaker Shirley Barrett, is also the cry alerting whalers to launch their longboats and let fly “the sting of iron” […]

Fiction: Out of Mercy by Jonathan Ashley

January 14, 2016 J. Kingston Pierce 1

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine.) The decades after America’s Civil War were brutal, especially in the border states where North and South bore murderous grudges and roving gangs pillaged dirt-poor towns ruled by anarchy. […]

Crime Fiction: Delicious Foods
by James Hannaham

July 2, 2015 J. Kingston Pierce 0

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Vicki Hendricks’ Voluntary Madness.) Delicious Foods (Little, Brown) is a Gothic crime novel written by a narrative virtuoso, James Hannaham, […]

Crime Fiction: Voluntary Madness
by Vicki Hendricks

March 10, 2015 admin 1

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Jonathan Ashley’s The Cost of Doing Business.) Ask yourself this, you outlaw bohemians who view the suburban cul-de-sac at the […]

Crime Fiction: The Cost of Doing Business
by Jonathan Ashley

November 3, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Tod Goldberg’s latest novel, Gangsterland.) Louisville, Kentucky, is a tough old town. Wedged between the Ohio River and the outskirts […]

Crime Fiction: Gangsterland
by Tod Goldberg

October 18, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Frank Wheeler Jr.’s new novel, The Good Life.) Longtime mafia hit man Sal Cupertine knows that once somebody “dictates the […]

Crime Fiction: The Good Life
by Frank Wheeler Jr.

September 19, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: The following review comes from Steven Nester, the host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio show heard on the Public Radio Exchange [PRX]. Nester is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, Mystery Scene and Firsts Magazine. He last wrote for January Magazine about Kevin Cook’s non-fiction work, Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America.) Sometimes to do the right […]