Author Archives: Bev Vincent

2023 – The Year in Review: (3) Movies and TV

The interview that almost wasn’t: Beyond Horror: The Enduring Impact of Stephen King. I was interviewed by Tim Webster for the Overnights show on Australian public radio. Webster is a self-avowed fan of King’s work and was a knowledgeable interviewer. … Continue reading

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2023 – The Year in Review: (2) Books

I’m trying to get back in the swing of things after a two-week vacation visiting family in northern California. That’s the longest I’ve been away from home in a long, long time. It’d been a year and a half since … Continue reading

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2023 – The Year in Review: (1) Publications

The year 2023 is almost at an end and we’re staring down the barrel of 2024, which looks like it may be an “interesting” one, in the Chinese curse sense of the word. I find it instructive to listen to … Continue reading

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The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson

One wouldn’t expect the discovery of a seventy-year-old rifle to generate more than historical interest. True, the weapon is associated with the long-ago murder of Bill Sutherland, a former state accountant, and it has long been theorized that Lloyd Longmire … Continue reading

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I Feel Fine

Brian Keene and Christopher Golden announced (finally!) the anthology they are co-editing: The End of the World as We Know it – Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Brian has been hinting about this project for some time, under the … Continue reading

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An Honest Man by Michael Koryta

What does it mean to be honest? Strictly speaking, someone who answers questions put to him without lying is being honest. However, there’s a reason why people who are sworn in before they testify in court are asked to tell … Continue reading

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I’m a terrible blogger

Months go by in the blink of an eye. I could blog more. I should blog more. And yet there never seems enough time. It’s not like I don’t have news to share—there’s always something going on that I might … Continue reading

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The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder by Lawrence Block

There have been biographies written about fictional characters. In some instances, the biography is a novel that purports to recount the life of the subject, but in other cases, writers assemble the “known” facts about a fictional character and recast … Continue reading

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Where I End by Sophie White

It’s a rare thing for a book to take this reader completely by surprise, but Where I End does just that. It is an exquisitely beautiful, profoundly disturbing and frequently grotesque short novel that almost defies description.  Much of the opening section … Continue reading

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Life’s a Beach

It’s been a while. Lots of water under the bridge in the past few months but, more importantly, lots of water in front of the beach house where we spent the last week. For nearly 20 years, my wife and … Continue reading

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