Blog: Things I'd Rather Be Doing

Charles Ardai was wrong. Thank God. When he and his partners launched the modern-day pulp fiction imprint Hard Case Crime in September 2004 with two books -- Lawrence Block's Grifter's Game and Max Phillips' Fade to Blonde -- he expected to put out a half dozen books or so. Instead, E. Howard Hunt's House D ick , which came out this month, was the 54th, and there are another eight in the pipeline that take [...]