SMFS list member John Floyd’s short story, The Florida
Blues, appears in the just released Strand Magazine 25th Anniversary Issue.
The issue is available at the website
and from other vendors.
Description
25th Anniversary Issue:
Unpublished Raymond Chandler, PLUS Alexander McCall Smith, Jeffery Deaver &
Bob Odenkirk
Our special holiday
issues features a lost poem by none other than the dean of hard-boiled
noir, Raymond Chandler. Written around 1955, “Requiem” shows the softer,
sensitive side of the man who gave us the ever brusque, wise-cracking PI Philip
Marlowe—it’s hard to imagine a more fitting foil. Joining Chandler this issue
are a number of modern-day writers who need no introduction. In “Mr. Slope, he
fall,” Alexander McCall Smith turns the English country-house mystery on its
head when a party of backstabbing academics gathers for a weekend in the
Scottish Highlands. In “The Usual Suspect,” Jeffery Deaver blends existential
dread with humor as he plays on the latest paranoia concerning the power of
artificial intelligence. Turning to pastiche, Mike Adamson sends Holmes and
Watson on foot into the mean streets of East London in “King of the Rats.” And
bringing it home, John Floyd, a Strand stalwart ever since
Issue 2, strikes a karmic chord in his perfect getaway tale “The Florida
Blues.”
This issue will be a
tough act to follow when it comes to interviews. Here we are lucky to feature
conversations with three great talents. Bob Odenkirk has mastered all kinds of
mediums, from sketch-comedy (think cult-classic Mr. Show) to
dramatic acting (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad) to memoir (Comedy,
Comedy, Comedy, Drama). Last month, he and his daughter Erin—a
painter and illustrator—joined me for a thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion
about the importance of the written word, art, and what it was like to
collaborate on Zilot and Other Important Rhymes, recently released
by Little, Brown and Company. Also, on the heels of a new book—Not Forever,
But For Now, published by Simon and Schuster—Chuck
Palahniuk of Fight Club fame dropped in for a chat, offering
some of the real-life inspirations for his debut novel and other
minimalist postmodern masterpieces.
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