Non-Fiction: Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
by Kevin Cook

May 9, 2014 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from New York writer 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.) For the last 50 years, the March 13, 1964, rape and murder of bar manager Kitty Genovese outside her Kew Gardens, Queens, apartment was as […]

Crime Fiction: Rake  by Scott Phillips

February 6, 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 Jerry Stahl’s Happy Mutant Baby Pills.) Rake is a gem of a noir tucked into a snug coffin with the […]

Fiction: Happy Mutant Baby Pills  by Jerry Stahl

December 27, 2013 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, a resident of Austerlitz, New York, and 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 Robert Stone’s Death of the Black-Haired Girl.) Jerry Stahl throws a bucket of acid […]

Fiction: Death of the Black-Haired Girl
by Robert Stone

December 3, 2013 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, now a resident of Austerlitz, New York, and 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.) Robert Stone might be one of the best and last of the postwar literary adventure writers. Taking over from Ernest […]

Fiction: Me and the Devil  by Nick Tosches

December 17, 2012 admin 0

(Editor’s note: This review comes from Steven Nester, a resident of McKinney, Texas, and 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.) You’ll be relieved to learn that rumors you may have heard concerning Nick Tosches writing a vampire novel aren’t quite true, not […]