Black Mask 6: The
Bloody Bokara

Edited by Otto Penzler; read by Richard Ferrone, David Ledoux, Jeff Gurner, and Peter Ganim

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About This Month’s Featured Audio

If you’re a “hard-boiled” fiction fan, we don’t even need to explain to you the enjoyment to be found in these Black Mask collections. But if you aren’t familiar with the genre, you’re missing a historic time capsule, the inspiration of myriad present-day mystery writers, and the sort of fun-to-narrate material that draws out the best in a narrator. Or, as Library Journal put it more elegantly in a starred review:

“There is gold in every set. . . . Hitting like a Tommy gun blast, these pulse-pounding collections will leave mystery hounds panting for the next installment.”
      —Library Journal  starred review

Includes:

• “Body Snatcher” by Theodore A. Tinsley; read by Richard Ferrone
• “Murder on the Gayway” by Dwight V. Babcock; read by David LeDoux
• “The Key” by Cleve F. Adams; read by Jeff Gurner
• “The Bloody Bokhara” by William Campbell Gault; read by Peter Ganim

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to NANCY MCENANLY the winner of the last giveaway, Pocket Kings. Thanks to all who participated.

Now we’re looking forward to the first teasers and trailers so we can see it for ourselves!

Old Jews Telling Jokes takes the stage at the Westside Theater on May 1, and discounts are being offered for preview performances. Check the show’s website for more information and a video from the show’s creators. And if you see the show, come back and tell us about it.

Later this spring, Steve also had the chance to stop by the Homegirl Cafe when he was in Los Angeles visiting friends. He highly recommends it for the food, friendly service, and the cool wall of herbs that are part of the interior decor.

Plus, you’ve got to love the entire organization’s slogan: “Nothing stops a bullet like a job.”

These images below are from an informational postcard you can pick up at the cafe.

Pocket Kings

Ted Heller; read by William Roberts

 

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About This Month’s Featured Audio

Frank Dixon’s first novel, Plague Boy, is sinking into oblivion on Amazon, and neither his—nor anyone else’s—literary agent will return his calls. Then Frank discovers online poker, and is soon addicted to the rush he feels as the successful, popular “Chip Zero.” But as he wins thousands of dollars, it soon becomes clear that his internet success is not the solution to his problems. And when the virtual world comes crashing in on Frank’s real life, it can only mean trouble..

“This hilarious dosing of satire and black humor nails both the delusions of wannabe writers, and also the giddy hopes of those who think ‘something for nothing’ is a worthy—or even possible—American dream. Narrator William Roberts . . . gives a Royal Flush performance in creating the character of Dixon, displaying a versatile range of emotions and accents guided by an overall sense of timing and arc.”
      —Audiobooks Today

“A well-crafted and entertaining satire on the world of modern publishing, as well as the perverse artificiality of the Internet. . . . Heller still manages to make the reader laugh and rage at more or less the same time.”
      —Publishers Weekly

“The pace is fast, the plot twisty, and the satire bites viciously as Heller takes gleeful chunks out of the publishing world, Internet culture, and the poker craze, all the while addressing serious questions about the nature of success and reality. . . . Dixon is a comic protagonist for the digital age, and this novel is good, angry fun.”
      —Library Journal

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Last Month’s Winner

Congratulations to LENA GONZALEZ BERRIOS the winner of the last giveaway, Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark. Thanks to all who participated.

Hola’s owners Martin and his wife (who stopped by with Hola) live in Minneapolis. You’ll perhaps
recognize Martin’s name from his making the TV talk show rounds with actor Don Cheadle, who stars in the Showtime version of another of Martin’s books House of Lies.

As you learn if you listen to Bad Dog (check out the excerpt), Hola lives up to the history of her breed as a rescue dog—but perhaps in an unusual way. It’s in attempting to train Hola that Martin learns he needs to get much more in his life under control than just his dog.

The writing Bad Dog: A Love Story is sharp and witty, and narrator David Drummond delivers this portrait of a man who seems to know even less about himself than he does about training a dog with the perfect mixture of misplaced assurance and bewildered revelation.

“This wry memoir of the human-dog bond is one that eschews the usual treacly sentimentality in favor of a raw, deeply sincere, and self-aware homage to this powerful bond.”
      —Publishers Weekly [HC starred review]

  
While you wait for the film to come to a theater near you, brush up on your Kerouac with our audio of On the Road, narrated by David Carradine. And for the back story of the book, One and Only is the story of Lu Anne Henderson, Kerouac’s inspiration for On the Road‘s Marylou. Both are perfect listening for the first road trip of spring!