George Pelecanos
@pelecanos1
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Professional writer
Silver Spring/DC/New Orleans
Joined March 2011
Now available for streaming on SnagFilms: The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides, a doc on the great writer by Fay Effrosini Lellios
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400 Things Cops Know, by Adam Plantinga. Essential for crime writers and anyone interested in the reality of police work.
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Doing a benefit reading on 7/31 for the new Silver Spring Library's Early Literacy Center. For ticket details go to http//bit.ly/1wS74wg
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And: DBT's English Oceans. With Teeth Dreams, that makes two phenomenal records released this month.
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Listening to The Hold Steady's new record, Teeth Dreams, their best in years.
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Drug War, directed by Johnnie To. Great crime film, available on Netflix. Check it out. The last half hour is nonstop mayhem.
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Just finished Wallace Stroby's Shoot the Woman First, a top shelf novel in the Richard Stark tradition. Kick ass crime fiction.
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@RomiSphinX My bad, I got the title wrong. But I love the book and Theresa's naturalistic writing.
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@Nattyrankins That's me, Natalie. No statement. Tired of those fake-ass author's photos I always see.
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...and: Rich Cohen's non-fiction Monsters, The 1985 Chicago Bears And The Wild Heart of Football
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