Derek Raymond’s final reading
This is the final post in our week-long celebration of the Return of Derek Raymond. It is also the most powerful. The audio recording below is taken from the final… Read more »
AUDIO: Derek Raymond on le train noir
A black train. The brief selection of audio we have today comes once again from the series of interviews done by Cathi Unsworth (Bad Penny Blues, The Singer) on her… Read more »
In the late nineties, writer and Derek Raymond-protege Cathi Unsworth hosted a week-long radio series called “The Dark End of The Street,” which explored the story behind Raymond’s career. The… Read more »
SLIDE SHOW: The Life of Derek Raymond
The life of Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond, in ten occasionally seedy slides.
Derek Raymond reads from “He Died With His Eyes Open”
Thou’rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better… Read more »
Ten great crime writers talk about another
To celebrate our launch of The Factory Series — four seminal crime novels from the “godfather of British noir,” Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond — we present ten of the… Read more »
At the Observer, Dan Duray takes a look at how big publishers eat each other in a report about Hachette imprint Little, Brown’s crime imprint start-up Mulholland Books. The report,… Read more »
The first chapter of a new novel by the underground Mexican revolutionary known as Subcommander Marcos—“one of the best know Latin American revolutionaries since Che Guevara”—was published by the leftist… Read more »
The just-published The Literary Spy: The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage and Intelligence, is “the perfect gift for the shadowy someone in your life,” says Alex Beam in his… Read more »