Writers on Film
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Writers on Film is the only podcast to focus on film books and to talk to the best authors working in the area of cinema. From Making Of tomes to biographies, studies to novelisations, author and film critic John Bleasdale is fascinated by where the written word intersects with the world of the big screen. Get bonus content on Patreon A proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network: www.filmstories.co.uk
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Illeana Douglas talks Jungle Red: The Making of MGM's The Women
Actress, film historian and writer, Illeana Douglas joins John Bleasdale to discuss her new book Jungle Red: the making of MGM's The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Paulette Godard and Rosalind Russell …
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Actress, film historian and writer, Illeana Douglas joins John Bleasdale to discuss her new book Jungle Red: the making of MGM's The Women. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Paulette Godard and Rosalind Russell scrap it out in front of and behind the cameras of George Cukor's classic film.
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The Great UnWatched
David Hughes, Laurence Boyce, Freda Cooper, Carolyn Hinds and Matthew Turner join me to talk about the new anthology of 200 hidden gems of cinema. Chosen by some of the best film critics working today, The …
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David Hughes, Laurence Boyce, Freda Cooper, Carolyn Hinds and Matthew Turner join me to talk about the new anthology of 200 hidden gems of cinema. Chosen by some of the best film critics working today, The Great Unwatched: 200 Must-See Movies You May Have Missed is a collection of recommendations of 200 films across a wide variety of genres, drawn from 100 years of films, that critics believe are not as well known as they should be – even though our contributors consider them "must see" movies.
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Andreas Halskov on Milos Forman
Film scholar Andreas Halskov celebrates the work of two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) in this comprehensive and long-overdue tome, which includes original …
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Film scholar Andreas Halskov celebrates the work of two-time Oscar-winning director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) in this comprehensive and long-overdue tome, which includes original interviews with such entertainment royalty as Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Annette Bening, Woody Harrelson, Stellan Skarsgård, Patton Oswalt, Oliver Stone, Mike Leigh, Mia Farrow, Michael Stipe, and Twyla Tharp.
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Chris Bujold's Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares
Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares is a cinematic coming-of age memoir told through the films that defined a generation, a life, and a childhood. Bujold writes with the wit of a lifelong cinephile and the …
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Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares is a cinematic coming-of age memoir told through the films that defined a generation, a life, and a childhood. Bujold writes with the wit of a lifelong cinephile and the vulnerability of someone willing to revisit life’s happiest moments alongside its most painful ones. Whether recounting disastrous family vacations, neighborhood adventures, awkward teenage years, or the heartbreaking experience of saying goodbye to the woman who first taught him the magic of the movies, Bujold captures something universal: our favorite films become inseparable from the people with whom we shared them.
Perfect for fans of personal memoirs, pop culture, and nostalgic storytelling, Robot Dreams and Suburban Nightmares is a celebration of the stories that shape us, the families who define us, and the unforgettable films that become part of who we are.
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James Mottram on The Making of The Odyssey
Discover the secrets of The Odyssey: A Film by Christopher Nolan with this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2026’s most celebrated film. Filming The Odyssey: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan’s …
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Discover the secrets of The Odyssey: A Film by Christopher Nolan with this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Summer 2026’s most celebrated film.
Filming The Odyssey: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Modern Epic traces the creation of Nolan’s latest film from script to screen through exclusive interviews with the director and his cast and crew accompanied by electrifying visuals from the film, including on-set photos, concept art, and research materials.
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Allyson Nadia Field Talks about Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History
We're at the 45th Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone and I'm talking to American author and academic Allyson Nadia Field about her 20226 book: Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film …
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We're at the 45th Giornate del Cinema Muto at Pordenone and I'm talking to American author and academic Allyson Nadia Field about her 20226 book: Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History. Get your copy of the book HERE.
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The Pordenone International Silent Film Festival
In its 45 edition, we're at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent film festival in Pordenone, with Mark Fuller -- expert and enthusiast in equal measure. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz …
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In its 45 edition, we're at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the international silent film festival in Pordenone, with Mark Fuller -- expert and enthusiast in equal measure.
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Roddy MacDowall by Samuel Garza Bernstein
Here is the comprehensive, first-ever biography of the award-winning child star, Planet of the Apes movie icon, beloved film legend, and Hollywood renaissance man whose career spanned 60 years. “This is a …
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Here is the comprehensive, first-ever biography of the award-winning child star, Planet of the Apes movie icon, beloved film legend, and Hollywood renaissance man whose career spanned 60 years.
“This is a beautiful tribute to a very special man. For those who aren’t familiar with Roddy, you’re in for a treat. You will get to know a man who was as kind as he was gifted.” —CAROL BURNETT
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Jon Spira on Mike Hodges: I'll Settle for Nothingness
I'LL SETTLE FOR NOTHINGNESS is a brand new book of conversations with Mike Hodges, the legendary British film director of classics such as GET CARTER, FLASH GORDON and THE CROUPIER. Available HERE. These …
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I'LL SETTLE FOR NOTHINGNESS is a brand new book of conversations with Mike Hodges, the legendary British film director of classics such as GET CARTER, FLASH GORDON and THE CROUPIER. Available HERE.
These conversations were conducted with filmmaker Jon Spira over the last years of Hodges' life. they form a personal and candid view of his work, life and philosophy as he meditates on his declining health and thoughts of legacy.
WITH A FOREWORD BY GRIFF RHYS JONES
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Mark Edlitz on Orson Welles: Maverick in the Machine
Citizen Kane. The Magnificent Ambersons. And the film history forgot. In July 1939, Orson Welles signed a contract with RKO Pictures granting him complete creative control over his films. Less than three years …
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Citizen Kane. The Magnificent Ambersons. And the film history forgot.
In July 1939, Orson Welles signed a contract with RKO Pictures granting him complete creative control over his films. Less than three years later, he was thrown off the lot.
At RKO, he made two of the most celebrated films in cinema history. He also made Journey Into Fear, a film that has been debated, dismissed, and misunderstood ever since.
Beneath it all lies the mystery: Who actually directed Journey Into Fear: Welles or credited director Norman Foster? Rumors have persisted for decades that Welles ghost-directed the picture, that the good parts were his and the flaws belonged to Foster. The truth is considerably more complex.
Drawn from studio memos, archival correspondence, and production records, this forensic account of the film’s production history uses Journey Into Fear as a case study to illuminate the broader workings of the Hollywood studio system: how it functioned, how it shaped the films it produced, and how it first empowered Welles before ultimately betraying him.
A case study in genius, compromise, and the machinery of Hollywood.
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Venice Film Festival 2
Bilge Ebiri is a film critic writing in New York magazine and Vulture. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Venice Film Festival 1
Nicholas Bell from Eye on Cinema and Fish Jelly YouTube channel joins me to talk Ink, Bucking Fastard and Wild Horse Nine, live from the Venice International Film Festival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz …
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Nicholas Bell from Eye on Cinema and Fish Jelly YouTube channel joins me to talk Ink, Bucking Fastard and Wild Horse Nine, live from the Venice International Film Festival.
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Richard Fleischer Journeyman by Jason Ney
When it came to filmmaking, Richard Fleischer had big shoes to fill. His father, Max, was one of America's most influential animators. However, Richard's own passions led him not to the animator's desk but to …
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When it came to filmmaking, Richard Fleischer had big shoes to fill. His father, Max, was one of America's most influential animators. However, Richard's own passions led him not to the animator's desk but to the director's chair.
After garnering an Academy Award for Best Documentary with Design for Death (1948), Fleischer became known for an eclectic mix of pictures such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Doctor Dolittle (1967), The Boston Strangler (1968), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Soylent Green (1973), and Conan the Destroyer (1984), directing such luminaries as Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Joan Collins, Lee Marvin, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In Richard Fleischer: Journeyman, author Jason A. Ney reveals how Fleischer navigated Hollywood's shifting standards, kept a good-humored outlook on his career, and earned lasting appreciation from those who worked with him. In addition to drawing on Fleischer's archived personal papers, Ney conducted original interviews with his family members as well as dozens of his professional collaborators, which gives the book a behind-the-scenes feel.
This comprehensive biography is the story of a genre-spanning director, a son of a pioneering animator, and a multifaceted man whose art continues to influence filmmakers today.
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David Thomson on A Sudden Flicker of Light
From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history. David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career …
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From one of cinema’s wisest and most penetrating observers, an arresting new perspective on the sweep of film history.
David Thomson has been called “the greatest living writer on the movies.” Here is a career capstone of sorts—a one-volume history of film and screens as illuminating and provocative as his classic Biographical Dictionary of Film. In tracing the progress, from the Lumiere Brothers to the Coens, Thomson glories in the great movies, but admits to increasing unease over what the medium has done to us—promoting fantasy, misleading models of sexual identity, the cult of authority, power, and happy endings.
This revisionist history is as alert to technology and business as it is to art and fun in tracing our pursuit of the lifelike instead of life. By turns trenchant, lyrical, and comic, Thomson uncovers our addiction to voyeurism and villainy, and a habit of passivity that has betrayed our political and cultural identity. In a survey that reaches from Metropolis to Rear Window to Anora, this will redirect ideas about film everywhere. As The New York Times has put it, “Thomson proves anew that he is irreplaceable.”
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Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter
KIER-LA JANISSE is an author, critic, film programmer, podcaster, publisher and producer with an emphasis on genre cinema. Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to her book House of Psychotic Women as one of the …
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KIER-LA JANISSE is an author, critic, film programmer, podcaster, publisher and producer with an emphasis on genre cinema.
Video Watchdog’s Tim Lucas referred to her book House of Psychotic Women as one of the 10 “most vital” horror film books of all time, and Ian MacAllister-McDonald of the LA Review of Books called it “the next step in genre theory, as well as the most frightening and heart-rending memoir I’ve read in years.”
Her book on Monte Hellman's infamous film Cockfighter is stunning. Visit her website here for more on her writing, her films and podcasts.
John Bleasdale's Connery A Novel is available to buy NOW.
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A Hard Day's Night with Samira Ahmed
Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer, and BBC broadcaster. She presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC News, and regularly hosts radio documentaries. In 2020, she was named British Broadcasting Press …
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Samira Ahmed is a journalist, writer, and BBC broadcaster. She presents Front Row on Radio 4, Newswatch on BBC News, and regularly hosts radio documentaries. In 2020, she was named British Broadcasting Press Guild's Audio Presenter of the Year. Ahmed has written for The Guardian, The Independent, and other publications, and she writes a regular column for New Humanist.
Read her blog here.
Samira Ahmed's BFI Classics: A Hard Days Night is available here.
John Bleasdale's Connery: A Novel is available here.
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Looking forward to The Odyssey with Ian Nathan
On the eve of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, I talk to author of Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our …
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On the eve of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, I talk to author of Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work.
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Live from Karlovy Vary with Scott Feinberg
Scott Feinberg is a veteran reporter of The Hollywood Reporter and hosts the Awards Chatter podcast. His work can be found here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information …
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Scott Feinberg is a veteran reporter of The Hollywood Reporter and hosts the Awards Chatter podcast. His work can be found here.
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LIVE from Bologna Cinema Ritrovato
Norwegian film director Truls Krane Meby and John-Kristian Dalseth, programmer for the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) and manager of the Verdensteatret Cinemateket join John Bleasdale to talk about …
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Norwegian film director Truls Krane Meby and John-Kristian Dalseth, programmer for the Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) and manager of the Verdensteatret Cinemateket join John Bleasdale to talk about the 40th Cinema Ritrovato Festival in Bologna.
John Bleasdale's second novel Connery A Novel is available to buy at Plumeria.
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The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk by David Hughes
Published to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Michael Lehmann's 1991 infamous "turkey shoot", The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of the film that brought Bruce …
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Published to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Michael Lehmann's 1991 infamous "turkey shoot", The Unmaking of Hudson Hawk is an in-depth look at the history and legacy of the film that brought Bruce Willis's career crashing to Earth, from the germ of the idea in 1980s New York to the recent revisionist views of the film by critics and commentators. Featuring interviews with co-creator/composer Robert Kraft, director Michael Lehmann, screenwriters Daniel Waters, Steven de Souza, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn and many members of the cast and crew, the book is for everyone who looked at Hudson Hawk and wondered what the hell happened. With an introduction by film critic Walter Chaw.
Connery A Novel is also available.
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Trans Cinema by Laura Horak
Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and founder of the award-winning Transgender Media Portal. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians …
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Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, and founder of the award-winning Transgender Media Portal. She is author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema.
Trans Cinema Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds is an exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.
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From the Archive: Ed Zwick
Ed Zwick made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond …
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Ed Zwick made his film debut with the comedy About Last Night (1986), followed by Glory (1989), Legends of the Fall (1994), Courage Under Fire (1996), The Siege (1998), The Last Samurai (2003), Blood Diamond (2006), and Defiance (2008). His later films include Love & Other Drugs (2010), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).
He is also the co-creator of the ABC family drama series thirtysomething and Once and Again.
John Bleasdale's novel Connery is available here.
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Cannes Report 3
Christina Jeurling Birro speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Fjord, directed by Christian Mungiu. John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk …
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Christina Jeurling Birro speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Fjord, directed by Christian Mungiu.
John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk and is available HERE.
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Cannes 2026 Report 2.
Thomas Schultz speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Minotaur, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk and …
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Thomas Schultz speaks to John Bleasdale about the 79th Cannes Film Festival and competition entry, Minotaur, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev.
John Bleasdale's new novel Connery is released by Plumeria.co.uk and is available HERE.
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Cannes 2026 Report 1
Nicolas Bell (Eye On Cinema) and Ed Potton (The Times) join John Bleasdale to talk about the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival. Read John Bleasdale's Connery, HERE. Hosted by Simplecast, an …
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Nicolas Bell (Eye On Cinema) and Ed Potton (The Times) join John Bleasdale to talk about the 79th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
Read John Bleasdale's Connery, HERE.
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Ian Christie talks Powell, Pressburger and more
Ian Christie FBA is a British film scholar whose work on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema has made him one of the most respected film writers today. He is a …
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Ian Christie FBA is a British film scholar whose work on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and the development of cinema has made him one of the most respected film writers today. He is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound magazine and a frequent broadcaster as well as being the Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London.
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J.G. Ballard on Film
In the first episode of a new mini-series, Dr. Brian Baker joins me to discuss the adaptations of J.G. Ballard on film, including Empire of the Sun, Crash and High Rise along with some lesser known films …
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In the first episode of a new mini-series, Dr. Brian Baker joins me to discuss the adaptations of J.G. Ballard on film, including Empire of the Sun, Crash and High Rise along with some lesser known films.
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Cinema Italia: Salvatore Giuliano
Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale discuss Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data …
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Nicholas Bell and John Bleasdale discuss Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962).
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Robert Kolker David Wyatt Discuss The Film Auteur
Robert Kolker and David Wyatt provide readers with a history of auteur theory, from its initial origins in France in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of the French film critics and …
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Robert Kolker and David Wyatt provide readers with a history of auteur theory, from its initial origins in France in the late 1940s as an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of the French film critics and theorists André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, to the canonizing work of American film critic Andrew Sarris in the 1960s. Available HERE.
Connery A Novel by John Bleasdale can be bought EXCLUSIVELY from Plumeria.
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John Rain on ThunderBook and SmershPod
John Rain is the host of the cult podcast Smersh Pod and the author of Thunder Book, SuperBook and Explodobook. Smersh Book is available here. Connery A Novel is available here. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz …
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John Rain is the host of the cult podcast Smersh Pod and the author of Thunder Book, SuperBook and Explodobook. Smersh Book is available here.
Connery A Novel is available here.
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