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January 24, 2018

Tachyon tidbits featuring Joe R. Lansdale

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The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Photo: Karen Lansdale

On COLLIDER, Allison Keene shares some of the first images from the new season of Hap & Leonard.

It’s time to strap in, Hap and Leonard fans. The third season, based off of Joe R. Lansdale‘s novel Two-Bear Mambo, may be one of the (unexpectedly) most timely on 2018. I say unexpectedly because the story (written in 1995) deals with our two heroes (played by James Purefoy and Michael K. Williams) squaring off against a nasty, Klan-like organization. Who would have thought that would be relevant in 2018? And yet, here we are.

The new season will also see a host of sure to be memorable new characters, played by Louis Gossett Jr. (Roots), Corbin Bernsen (Psych), Andrew Dice Clay (Blue Jasmine), Laura Allen (American Horror Story: Cult) and musician Curtis Harding. For those who haven’t had a chance to catch up with the series, it focuses on the (sometimes deadly) hijinks of two very different friends in East Texas in the 1980s. The show is warm, funny, profane, and is one of the truest southern shows I’ve ever seen.

Hap and Leonard returns to SundanceTV on Wednesday, March 7th. And remember, given the anthology nature of the show, while I would strongly recommend watching the previous seasons, you can jump right in to Season 3 if you need to (each season is only 6 episodes long though, so it’s not a huge time commitment!)

Sheldon Wiebe for ECLIPSE MAGAZINE reports on SundanceTV’s Black History Month programming.

SundanceTV will air a series of special programs during Black History Month. It’s February programming includes the history-making Roots miniseries; Roots: The Next Generation and Queen (final chapter of Alex Haley’s Roots story).

Also included will be bio film Malcolm X, Rosewood, The Color Purple and Ghosts of Mississippi.

Hap and Leonard stars Michael Kenneth White and Louis Gossett Jr. will provide will provide interstitial commentary on a range of topics relating to SundanceTV’s Black History Month programming.

At LIBRARY JOURNAL, Martha Cornog includes Joe R. Lansdale and Sam Glanzman’s RED RANGE among Visionary Graphic Narratives: Celebrate Black History Month and Beyond with These Essential Comics.

In this hyperviolent, gleeful pulp, the Klan killed Rufus Range’s family—and he’s out for revenge as a vigilante dubbed Red Mask. Originally released in 1999, the now full-color story flaunts the nastiest dirty laundry that 19th-century racism offered. But Rufus and his younger sidekick are smarter, more skillful, and more humane than their enemies, whose incompetence becomes morbidly funny. Look for a surprise sf twist. For fans of Django Unchained; mature readers.

February 24, 2017

HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE wonderfully expands on the characters’ history

Alec Checkerfield Uncategorized eclipse magazine, elizabeth story, hap and leonard: blood and lemonade, hap and leonard: mucho mojo, Joe R. Lansdale, nacogdoches film festival, Publishers Weekly, rusty puppy, sundanceTV', words of a story

WORDS OF A STORY enjoys Joe R. Lansdale’s HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE.

This book is collection of short stories, though Lansdale himself describes it as a “mosaic novel”. In summary: Hap and Leonard spend a night driving around town, shooting the shit and doing nothing much in particular. As their conservation drifts along and they pass by places they used to know, memories spark off flashbacks which lead into short stories, mostly about Hap’s childhood, his parents, and particularly his relationship to racism, but also covering the first time Hap and Leonard met and the first time they got into trouble together. (Two of the stories were published previously in another context, but they’re integrated so well into the rest that I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t already read them: “The Boy Who Became Invisible” and “Not Our Kind”.) But despite mostly taking place in the past, I don’t think this would make for a good introduction to the series; a lot of the power of the stories depends on already knowing these characters and having an emotional connection to them and their relationship. On the other hand, if you do know them, this is a wonderful expansion of their history.

Lansdale’s RUSTY PUPPY was one of the PW Picks: Books of the Week, February 20, 2017.

As always, Lansdale spins a wild, rollicking yarn, but behind all the mayhem is a heartfelt tale about friendship, brotherhood, loyalty, and family. Hap and Leonard are complicated, violent men, but they display a basic humanity and decency that carries this remarkable series along.

ECLIPSE MAGAZINE is excited about HAP AND LEONARD: MUCHO MOJO.

Joe R. Lansdale’s southern fried, swamp rock duo of ne’er-do-wells, Hap and Leonard, have staked out a home on SundanceTV.

After a critically-acclaimed first season that ended on a doozy of a cliffhanger (what was that thing doing in Uncle Chester’s basement, anyway?), the duo return – caught in the middle of a murder mystery with more twists and turns than an East Texas highway – in Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo on Wednesday, March 15th (10/9C).

Photo: Karen Lansdale

Lansdale is taking a break from his book tour to attend the Nacogdoches Film Festival, for which he serves on the Board of Directors.

The Nacogdoches Art Alliance (NAA) is pleased to announce that the sixth annual Nacogdoches Film Festival will be held this coming February 24-26, 2017. This year’s theme is Exploring the Frontiers of the Imagination.

Headlining this year’s Festival will be two-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director Al Reinert, whose documentary film, For All Mankind, won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentary films, in addition to being nominated for an Academy Award. That film led director Ron Howard to hire him several years later to write the screenplay for his blockbuster film, Apollo 13, for which Reinert earned a second Oscar nomination.

This year, the Festival will kick off with the VIP reception on Friday at the Charles Bright Visitor Center in downtown Nacogdoches. The Friday evening films will be shown at the Lamp-Lite playhouse, home of live theater performances for nearly forty years. Saturday and Sunday’s events will be held on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

An important element of the Nacogdoches Film Festival experience is the Q&A period following the showing of each film, where attendees are able to ask questions of industry professionals who actually took part in the making of that particular film.

For more info about HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story