Blogs about: Patricia Highsmith

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The Frumious Bandersnatch wrote 3 weeks ago: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith I’m not sure what to say about this book.  It wa … more →

Tags: Reading Journal, stopped, Completed, The Talented Mr. Ripley

That Cat in the Hat and the FBI 2 comments

Cathryn wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m fascinated by crime and owe my interest in writing psychological suspense fiction to my fa … more →

Tags: writing, Fiction, Suspense, Psychological Suspense, FBI, The Cat in the Hat, Perry Mason, judy bolton, Agatha Christie

The dangerous woman1 comment

stevenhartwriter wrote 4 weeks ago: Patricia Highsmith’s cycle of novels about the affable sociopath Tom Ripley – The Talen … more →

Tags: The Reading Life, Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley, ripley under water, Ripley's Game, the boy who followed ripley

Started Reading:

The Frumious Bandersnatch wrote 1 month ago: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith I’ve been meaning to read this book for a long t … more →

Tags: Reading Journal, started, The Talented Mr. Ripley

American Fiction3 comments

ccyager wrote 1 month ago: As I was listening to a Minnesota Orchestra concert broadcast recently, a concert primarily of Ameri … more →

Tags: Fiction, Reading As a Writer, Minnesota Orchestra, Novels, Reading, Osmo Vanska, Edith Wharton, American Fiction, American Classical Music

The American Friend-1977

bennythomas wrote 1 month ago: Aka Der Amerikanische Freund It was Mark Twain who wrote Innocents Abroad (1869) after visiting the … more →

Tags: German Cinema, Tom Ripley series, dennis hopper, wim wenders, art dealer, forgers

Peter Haining - Beyond The Curtain Of The Dark

demonik wrote 2 months ago: Peter Haining – Beyond The Curtain Of The Dark (Four Square, October, 1966: Nel, 1972) Bruce … more →

Tags: anthology, Four Square, Peter Haining, New English Library, Horror Fiction, Nel, Vault of Evil, Josh Kirby, Bruce Pennington

Vintage menace

jennascherer wrote 2 months ago: From the Boston Herald, May 11, 2009 Double-murder scheme on track in “Train” It’s a shame we … more →

Tags: Theater Review, Stoneham Theatre, Stoneham, Thriller, Hitchcock, strangers on a train, Craig Warner

Crimes Stories: From Page To Screen

artandliterature wrote 2 months ago: Earlier this week, I mentioned two articles on romantic crime films that I’d written for the c … more →

Tags: Film & theater, George Mason University, Mysteries/Thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Minghella, Arthur Penn, Bertrand Tavernier, Bonnie and Clyde, Brett Halliday

The Talented Ms. Highsmith

gryphonschoollrc wrote 2 months ago: This Easter holiday I finally got around to reading a novel that I have been meaning to ever since I … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Reading, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anne Tyler

markhstevens wrote 4 months ago: Plausibility is in the details. With Anne Tyler, it seems like the details are always nailed down. A … more →

Tags: Books, Baltimore, Fiction, Anne Tyler

Strangers on the Train1 comment

John wrote 5 months ago: Alfred Hitchcock, 1951   HOOK:  Weakness “crisscrossing” with evil.   GOSSIP:  Strangers on a Train … more →

Tags: Movies, film noir, Movie Review, film, film classics, Dogs, cult films, Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock

kinks, winks & hijinks1 comment

bibliosaur wrote 5 months ago: “but you have to make allowances for people’s perversities, things that don’t make … more →

Tags: Authors, The Price of Salt

Highsmith, Patricia (1974) Ripley's Game

Ben wrote 6 months ago: Ripley’s Game (1974) Patricia Highsmith Vintage, 256pp Tom Ripley, anti-hero of numerous Patricia … more →

Tags: Ripley's Game, strangers on a train, the boy who followed ripley, Ripley Under Ground, ripley under water, Crime and Punishment, vintage classic twins, Dostoyevsky, kafka

TRANS-SIBEREAN

John wrote 7 months ago: Brad Anderson, writer/director, 2008   HOOK:  Edgy Hitchcock-like paranoia Unlimited.   STORY:  “Se … more →

Tags: Movies, film noir, Movie Review, film, film classics, Dogs, cult films, Jokes fun, John Lehman

Strangeness on a Train: Hitchcock, Highsmith and Maurizio Lucidi's 'La Vittima Designata' (1971)

filmbunnies wrote 10 months ago: by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Alfred Hitchcock was shrewd when it came to gobbling up filmable book p … more →

Tags: Alex, hitchcock's 'strangers on a train', lucidi's 'the designated victim', Alfred Hitchcock, Farley Granger, giallo, La Vittima Designata, Maurizio Lucidi, strangers on a train

The Great American Short Story6 comments

Trilby wrote 10 months ago: America tends to be quite good at cornering the market in whatever pursuit takes the national fancy. … more →

Tags: Entries by Trilby, Fiction General, Fiction & Literary, Fiction Short Stories, American short stories, donald barthelme, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor

Reading 229, from The Talented Mr. Ripley

rhapsodysinger wrote 11 months ago: Tom watched Dickie help Marge into the boat. The white sail began to climb. Behind them, to the lef … more →

Tags: Anthropology, daily readings, Insanity, lectio divina, Literature, Psychology, romanticism, Truth, Universal

A list of five3 comments

Mike wrote 1 year ago: It’s always nice when people do what I say… A less megalomanical way of saying that mig … more →

Tags: Politics, Books, Review, Science Fiction, richard matheson, I Am Legend, Abingdon, Blogging, Oxfordshire


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