Bookish: Writ Larger (3#) -

He's baaack! Roy Greenslade
writes about a past era in journalism . . .

I would like to see some of those qualities revived, especially here in America, where journalism as an institution has adopted a much more antiseptic approach, draining all the "juice" out of it with the expected result - the dreaded MEGO Factor.

Prof Greenslade tells us about
Colin Dunne's new book: Man Bites Talking Dog.

Welcome back, Roy! We really missed you. Although your deputies did a good job, they could not replace you.

# This weekend's
International Mystery looks interesting:

"Kurt Wallander and Linda face a religious fanatic intent on carrying out his personal version of God's will, at a brutal cost... A flock of swans are burned to death. Shortly thereafter, a young woman is horribly murdered."

I'm going to try to catch it. [mhz tv]

# And here's a piece I recently
came across on Nordic Crime Fiction.

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