My comparison of Michael Mann and William Friedkin, and details on their battle for the heart of the gritty crime film in the ’80s, is up at Criminal Element.
Two of my favorite films: To Live and Die in L.A. and Thief, compared and dissected for your obsessive internet reading pleasure.
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Thomas Pluck writes unflinching fiction with heart. His stories have appeared in Big Pulp, Needle, Stupefying Stories, The Utne Reader Burnt Bridge, [PANK] magazine, Crime Factory, Spinetingler, Beat to a Pulp, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and elsewhere. He edits the Lost Children charity anthologies to benefit PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and writes The Big Eat, the burger and greasy spoon column for Devil Gourmet.
"The Story of O Street" in Oh Sandy: An Anthology of Humor for a Serious Cause***
"Kamikaze Death Burgers at the Ghost Town Cafe" in Feeding Kate
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"Acapulcolypse" in Nightfalls: Notes from the End of the World
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"The Rock Ridge Ringer" in Hills of Fire: Bare-Knuckle Yarns of Appalachia
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"Train" in Shotgun Honey Presents: Both Barrels
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"Garbage Man" in Beat to a Pulp: Superhero
"Six Feet Under God" in Grift #1
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"Free Bird" in Off the Record: A Charity Anthology; benefits children's literacy
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"short and mean and well-written." - James Reasoner
"Black-Eyed Susan" in Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled
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The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology (Amazon Kindle & Paperback)
(editor) and story "Little Sister"
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