Black Black Noir

One is a Lonely Number / Black Wings Has My Angel by Bruce Elliot/Elliot Chaze
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Stark House has reprinted two traditionally hard-to-find, much-sought-after paperback originals in one volume--One is a Lonely Number by Bruce Elliot "(1952) and Black Wings Has Angel (1953) by Elliot Chaze. One is a Lonely Number was originally published by Lion (100) and is nearly impossible to find, but yet doesn't command the same high prices as Black Wings, a Gold Medal (296) original, which usually goes for hundreds of dollars.

If you like your hardboiled crime novels gritty and violent and have never read either of these, I highly recommend plunking down $19.95 for this volume. Black Wings Has My Angel has had a cult following for years, even, as it turns out, in the movie business where it's currently being filmed for a 2013 release.

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The Daddy-o Manifest-o

If you believe the golden days of the space-age bachelor lifestyle peaked sometime in the early sixties, you, my friend, have found a haven on the net in Dig-it, Daddy-o. This blog is about the pop culture of the 1950s and 60s and the styles they inspire today. Although we will focus on that time period we could wander further back in time or write about subjects as late as the late 70s.

Although we will be writing on subjects more of interest to the American male, we don't want to dissuade distaff and alien readers, but we are here for readers that understand the social context of the period we survey and appreciate it despite the fact that it wasn't always politically correct by today's standards.

To wit, here's a quick laundry list of our favorite subjects in no particular order: hardboiled crime fiction, cool jazz, exotica, tropicalia, bossa nova, Gold Medal Paperbacks, Frank, Sammy, Dean, cigars, vintage motorcycles, James Bond, guns, pin-ups, black velvet paintings, pop-art, op-art, Tretchikoff, Hitchcock, Carson, Hefner, Playboy, Julie London, Tormé, Mancini, Waylon, Willie, New York City, Vegas, beatniks, bullfighting, Kerouac, Capote, martinis, rye whisky, Paris, country music, Hawaiian shirts, guayaberas, Bardot, French new wave, Roger Corman, James Dean, Rio de Janeiro, Goldwater, Mad Men, the cold war and the space race. You get the idea.

You won't find music downloads here. Just reviews of the latest re-releases of music and of books about and from the 50s and 60s. Although we will occasionally have links to pulp fiction that can be downloaded and read on your ebook reader.

Our official launch date is July 1, 2011