All posts by Peter Blauner

Peter Blauner: 1975 Movies – A Consumer’s Guide Sometimes films are better than you remember them. Sometimes they are not. There’s a temptation to say that everything sucks now, and everything was better before. But in some cases, it’s true. At least in art. Or maybe you can just say that some years are better than others. The year 1939 produced the following novels: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, Ask The Dust by JohnRead More
Goodfellas on the Range About the new Scorsese film Honore de Balzac, who as far as I know never set foot on Wall Street or in Oklahoma during the oil rush, is often credited with saying “behind every great fortune is a crime.” I kept thinking of the line – actually a reduction of what he wrote – while watching the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. As you probably know, Killers is based on a nonfiction book by David Grann. It tells the story of a breathtaking American crime. Or more accurately,Read More
Crime at its Core Looking Back at Pietro Di Donato’s novel about the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s and a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father’s untimely death. Most crime novels try to hook you on the first page, or even the first paragraph. Sometimes they do it a little too eagerly, like a nervous host at a cocktail party. But there’s another kind of book that doesn’t give up its charms so easily. I have groaning shelvesRead More

Posted On September 19, 2017By Peter BlaunerIn Biografie, Crimemag

Peter Blauner: From Crack Houses to TV Shows

Real to Reel: From Slow Motion Riot to Law & Order: SVU by Peter Blauner. With „Proving Ground“ – see CrimeMag’s „Reading Ahead“ in last month’s issue – he just came back from an eleven year hiatus as a novelist. Alf Mayer called it “ an author’s comeback of considerable weight“, Richard price stated: „Over the last 25 years Peter Blauner has proven to be a master of the urban darkside, his crime novels suffused with a knowing compassion for the bottom dogs who live in the Minotaur’s maze that isRead More