Margin Notes
Tom AndesThis is mostly a blog about writing fiction, especially crime fiction, especially that beguiling, elusive form, the short story. But I'm going to talk about novels, music, songwriting, movies, and lots of other stuff, too.
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That Single Holy Moment: In Memoriam James Sallis
I met James Sallis through a mutual friend, the poet Ralph Adamo, who was one of my college professors. I’d first encountered Jim’s work through the 2011 movie Drive, an adaptation of his neo-noir novel of the same name. It’s a terrific ada...
An Interview with Jim Ruland
A speculative noir set in a near future that seems entirety too plausible, Jim Ruland’s Make It Stop is at once a comic romp through a dystopian hellscape, a searing indictment of a for-profit healthcare system taking advantage of addicts,...
Ninety Minutes of Distraction from Our Impending Doom
It’s difficult for me to adequately express how much I love Todd Snider’s music. I got to see him twice, the first time at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco with his band, where I also got to meet him and hang out backstage aft...
An Interview with Dean Schlabowske
I first heard Dean Schlabowske’s music when I found the Waco Brothers, his rowdy collaboration with the prolific singer-songwriter and founding ember of the Mekons Jon Langford. And though I came to that band because I loved Langford’s song...
An Interview with Rob D. Smith
Rob D. Smith’s Anthony-nominated debut Good Looking Ugly is a comic noir romp through the Kentucky underworld that puts its own stamp on the genre and the region he’s writing about. After a lifetime of getting mocked for his looks, Daniel n...
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Shamus Award-winning author of the detective novel Wait There Till You Hear from Me (Crescent City Books 2025). Work in Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2025. Most recent record is The Ones That Brought You Home.
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