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John J. Miller Gives Grognardia Its Due
By Deuce Richardson. Posted on 10-Feb-10. Filed in Gaming and REH, Miller, John J.. Comments Off on John J. Miller Gives Grognardia Its Due
Over at National Review Online, friend of The Cimmerian, John J. Miller, just posted an entry giving props to Grognardia. As some TC readers may already know, James Maliszewski’s web log is perhaps the finest of its kind devoted to role-playing games. Just a few weeks ago, Grognardia received plaudits from The L.A. Times. Even if you’re […]
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The First Assassin by John J. Miller
By Leo Grin. Posted on 03-Nov-09. Filed in Miller, John J.. Comments Off on The First Assassin by John J. Miller
Good friend of The Cimmerian John J. Miller (who has covered Robert E. Howard positively and perceptively in The Wall Street Journal, interviewed Rusty Burke about the Del Rey Conan books for National Review Online, and highlighted Paul Sammon’s Conan the Phenomenon on his Between the Covers podcast) has released his first novel, a thriller […]
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El Borak Reviewed at Publishers Weekly
By Deuce Richardson. Posted on 14-Dec-09. Filed in History and REH, Literary Reputation of REH, NEWS and EVENTS. Comments Off on El Borak Reviewed at Publishers Weekly
Over at the Publishers Weekly website, they just posted their newest batch of “Fiction Book Reviews.” The capsule reviews are wide-ranging, covering books in both the ‘mainstream’ and ‘genre’ categories. A review of El Borak and Other Desert Adventures (coming in March from Del Rey) is amongst them. Considering how small a percentage of eligible books actually get reviewed by Publishers […]
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Miller Gives Kelton His Due
By Deuce Richardson. Posted on 24-Nov-09. Filed in Miller, John J., OTHER AUTHORS, WESTERNS. Comments Off on Miller Gives Kelton His Due
Some might remember that a while back I blogged about the life and fiction of Elmer Kelton, possibly the greatest Western writer ever. Over at The Wall Street Journal Online, John J. Miller tips his own hat to the legacy of Kelton while also providing a look at Other Men’s Horses, Elmer’s posthumous novel and the final installment in […]
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One Good Turn Deserves Another
By Leo Grin. Posted on 21-Nov-09. Filed in Miller, John J.. Comments Off on One Good Turn Deserves Another
As I noted in this post a few weeks ago, pal of The Cimmerian John J. Miller recently published his first novel, a Civil War-era thriller titled The First Assassin. Sales have been gratifying, with the book hitting #468 on Amazon.com’s numerical rankings at one point. However, some guys hiding behind pseudonyms have mounted a […]
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Harold Lamb: John J.Miller Weighs in at The Wall Street Journal
By Deuce Richardson. Posted on 26-Aug-09. Filed in Lamb, Harold, Literary Reputation of REH, Miller, John J., NEWS and EVENTS, OTHER AUTHORS. Comments Off on Harold Lamb: John J.Miller Weighs in at The Wall Street Journal
Lamb’s obituaries in 1962 barely mentioned his fiction. By then, the cheap magazines that had published his yarns were long forgotten except by a few passionate collectors. Like a burial mound’s hidden hoard of treasure, they lay undisturbed, awaiting their rediscovery by Mr. Jones — and now a growing band of admirers. Such is the […]
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Three friends of The Cimmerian in the news
By Leo Grin. Posted on 18-Mar-09. Filed in Herron, Don, Miller, John J., Saunders, Charles R.. Comments Off on Three friends of The Cimmerian in the news
Don Herron’s The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook is released Don Herron is the best critic in Howard studies, bar none. However, REH is but a small part of his professional output. He’s most famous for helming the longest-running literary walking tour in the US, San Francisco’s Dashiell Hammett Tour. Over three decades it […]
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Miller on Hemingway
By Leo Grin. Posted on 14-Aug-08. Filed in Hemingway, Ernest, Miller, John J.. Comments Off on Miller on Hemingway
Speaking of Ernest Hemingway, whom Steve mentions in his last post, friend of The Cimmerian John J. Miller has a brand new piece on the Master and his fishing habits in The Wall-Street Journal. Miller’s interest is more than professional — he grew up in Michigan and recently vacationed “Up North” in Seney, where the […]
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JJM on D&D
By Leo Grin. Posted on 01-Jul-08. Filed in NEWS and EVENTS. Comments Off on JJM on D&D
This morning Between the Covers host John J. Miller brings the Dungeons & Dragons True Word to the heathen masses of the Wall Street Journal, and includes several news tidbits that proved new to me. Check it out.
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The Dungeonmaster Has Died
By Leo Grin. Posted on 04-Mar-08. Filed in OTHER AUTHORS. Comments Off on The Dungeonmaster Has Died
Gary Gygax, 1938–2008 (hat tip: Jonah Goldberg and John J. Miller at NRO and Will Greenwald at Crave) One of the seminal influences in fantasy in the twentieth century has left us for Valhalla. Gygax was a giant, a man whose enthusiasm and sense of adult play took a weird cerebral offshoot of board and […]
