Of Mickey Spillane and "Mike Hammer"
Let's establish one thing coming out of the starting gate: Mickey Spillane (Frank Morrison Spillane, 1918-2006) was not a good writer. You may see him in Hemingway-esque photographic poses, sitting at typewriters and swilling beer. The inch-deep media may mention him and his character Mike Hammer in the same breath as Dashiel Hammett and Sam […]