Remembering Spillane: what others are saying

Not surprisingly, considering the influence Spillane had on the genre, lots of people are blogging about the man (and that’s why this post will be updated throughout the day.) They include:

• James Reasoner
• Bill Crider (who provides a picture of his wife, Judy, with Mickey at Bouchercon 1981)
• Ed Gorman
• Terry Teachout
• Jaime J. Weinman (who points to Jean Kerr’s Mike Hammer parody, “Don Brown’s Body”)
• The Retropolitan
• Ace of Spades HQ (with a ton of additional links and quotes)
• Slusphile.net
• Ed Champion
• Jiro Kimura (who hopes “the 14th Hammer novel, THE SHRINKING ISLAND, in which Hammer is supposed to marry Velda, will be published soon.”)
• Sunset Parker (with a Brooklyn angle)
• Sacraments Wholesale
• Vince Keenan
• Linkmeister
• Wallace Stroby, writing for his home paper the Newark Star-Ledger
• Carolyn Kellogg with a dissenting view (and a great photo of the Mick with Karen Black!)
• Freeing My Mind
• Michael Blair at Type M for Murder