Online Articles & Links
"The Skunks, the Band That Broke Austin Out of the Seventies: Young, Loud, and Cheap" (Austin Chronicle article 12/8/00):http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2000-12-08/music_feature.html
Stayin'
Alive
"I think I must have looked like a shadowy character straight out of one
of the hard-boiled detective novels I wrote a few years ago. I'm sure some people
thought I was a junkie, shuffling through the night from riff to riff, fix to
fix. But the gorilla on my back wasn't the big H, it was the big C. of the tonsil,
to be exact." - From "Stayin' Alive".
Wild Town - Many of Jim Thompson's noir novels drew on his days as a bellhop at the old Hotel Texas, when Fort Worth was rowdy and the twenties were roaring.
THE
SKUNKS LIVE: Review of The Skunks at the Continental Club March 2, 2001,
by Christopher Gray
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-09/music_live3.html
"Rock and Roll Gothic: My First Real Gig Ended Up Feeling Like a Faustian Bargain" By Jesse Sublett, published in the New York Times on 8/28/01.
More about Dianne’s murder and how it affected me: WHEN A LOVED ONE IS MURDERED, by Jesse Sublet, published in Texas Monthly July 2002
Things I’ve written about Charles Willeford:
"Doing Right by a Poet of the Pulp Novel" an article about Charles Willeford - by Jesse Sublett , published in the New York Times on 6/18/00: http://www.dennismcmillan.com/charleswillefo/adaptati.htm
CHARLES
WILLEFORD AND THE COCKFIGHTER: WILLEFORD AS AUTHOR/SCREENWRITER/ACTOR
on the Roger Corman adaptation of his book:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-03-10/screens_feature2.html
CHARLES
WILLEFORD ANTHOLOGY: WRITING & OTHER BLOODSPORTS
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-10-20/books_roundup4.html
Weekly
Wire Archive
Create your own custom Jesse Sublett publication by checking the articles
you wish to read and then pressing "give me my paper!". Book reviews,
and other articles are available.
No Prozac for the Wicked - an interview with Donald Westlake
Deep in the Heart (of Texas) Film
My novels are fictional, but some of the characters are real. Johnny Reno, for example, who appears in several of my novels, is a very real guy and a very kool guy. Check out his site, and his music, and dig it.
BURNING DOWN THE SIXTIES: Jesse tours the LBJ Library with pal James Ellroy, on the release of his great new novel, THE COLD SIX THOUSAND: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-06-29/books_feature.html
Danelectro.com
Yes, I’ve always said that a FENDER bass is THE BASS GUITAR. On the
other hand, the retro cool instruments made by Danelectro are supercool.
I’ve got several, and I’ll probably never have enough. Check
out their website and see for yourself.
Punk Rockers: Not Burning Out, Not Fading Away: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol16/issue38/music.punk.html
JAMES
CRUMLEY: YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN: I interview James Crumley on the
release of The Final Country, a classic return to form for the great ex-Texan
author:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-10-26/books_feature.html
JAMES
CARLOS BLAKE PUTS THE ROAR BACK IN THE ROARING SIXTIES IN WORLD OF THIEVES: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-03-08/books_feature.html
More
on Blake: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/1999-11-05/books_feature4.html
MICHAEL CONNELLY’S web site: www.michaelconnelly.com
My
friend Abby Levine is a GREAT artist: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-01-18/arts_exhibitionism.html
Also see all her work at www.abbyart.com
This is an interview with my pal, James Ellroy, entitled Dead Women Owned His Soul.
This is my story about John Wesley Hardin, one of the baddest of the bad men of the wild west - John Wesley Hardin, the Fortysomething Killer.