Read, read, read. Some great stuff on '50s and '60s pulp fiction:
http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/2006/11/post_17.html
An unacknowledged titan of twentieth-century fiction:
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/55345
And the late and great:
http://www.mysteryfile.com/JDM/Interview.html
Gratias for your continued indulgence of Erasmus's absence.