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This is the final post in our week-long celebration of the Return of Derek Raymond. It is also the most powerful. The audio recording below is taken from the final public reading given by Raymond, who despite his failing health delivered one of his finest…
A black train. The brief selection of audio we have today comes once again from the series of interviews done by Cathi Unsworth (Bad Penny Blues, The Singer) on her former “Dark End of The Street” program. In today’s interview, Cathi is talking with Welsh…
In the late nineties, writer and Derek Raymond-protege Cathi Unsworth hosted a week-long radio series called “The Dark End of The Street,” which explored the story behind Raymond’s career. The series culminated in a discussion of Raymond’s most influential book, I Was Dora Suarez. The…
The life of Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond, in ten occasionally seedy slides.
Thou’rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke ; why swell’st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally,…
To celebrate our launch of The Factory Series — four seminal crime novels from the “godfather of British noir,” Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond — we present ten of the best crime writers ever and what they had to say about Raymond … or what…
In the five noir masterworks that comprise Derek Raymond‘s superb Factory Series (He Died With His Eyes Open, The Devil’s Home On Leave, How The Dead Live, I Was Dora Suarez and Dead Man Upright (to be published in 2012), he created the ultimate avenging…