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The Big Knife (1955, dir. Robert Aldrich) pressbook.

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Yardley of London makeup ads, 1960s

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With the scans kindly provided by Michael Van Vleet (signalstation.bsky.social), we've completed another page for our magazine archive! Did you know the vast majority of Richard Stark's Parker novels were reprinted in men's magazines throughout the 1960s & '70s? And did you know Tough Business currently has the largest archive of Parker magazine reprints?

It's all easily accessible right here, and don't forget to check out our newly completed page for reprints of The Jugger (1965)!

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Unfailingly Loyal: A Parker + Grofield Zine

"What we really wanted to convey in this project was the emotional core of Mr. Stark's novels and his work put into developing Parker and Grofield as characters. Exploring their relationship with each other was something we found just as compelling, both in canon and beyond it."

A collection of short comics (& one essay) brought to you by the team behind Tough Business! (x)

Since Issuu stopped letting us host our zine for free, we've now uploaded it to the Internet Archive where you can read it for (hopefully) years to come. Look out for our new zine coming out later this year!

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To Be Alive

by Gregory Orr

To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but… If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

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It’s so funny having autism and social anxiety and having to learn to he friendly and polite to everyone just to have people stare at you blankly when you speak to them

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they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

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Between 1960 and 1969, Donald Westlake wrote forty-seven novels; sometimes up to eight a year. It was also during this time that his best known alter-egos emerged. Richard Stark wrote cold, blunt, hard-boiled crime fiction; Tucker Coe wrote overtly emotional mystery novels about an open-wound of an ex-cop. At first glance, these two major highlights of Westlake's '60s output couldn't be more different – and yet, in many ways, they are mirror images of each other. Although widely debated in the case of Richard Stark’s infamous cold-blooded protagonist, the stories told by Coe and Stark are still those of men gradually opening up to the world around them, and being transformed through their relationships with other men.

New article comparing The Handle (1966) and Murder Among Children (1967) is now up on my substack and on Tough Business, our Richard Stark's Parker website!

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Duane Grunfeld, a 44-year-old Hartford-area insurance-claims processor, experienced a passing moment of satisfaction in his otherwise agonized existence Tuesday when he purchased a new pen.

“It’s a nice pen–smooth-writing and easy on the hand,” Grunfeld said of the $2.79 UniBall Gel Writer XT he purchased during his allotted 30-minute lunch break.

With its retractable fine point and rubberized grip, the quality pen briefly helped Grunfeld forget about his thinning hair, the severe reprimand he received from his supervisor Monday for tardiness, and the Aug. 11 death of his only companion, a 9-year-old parakeet named Mr. Whistles. Full Story

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Park Chan-wook at the Venice Film Festival premiere of No Other Choice (2025)

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hey yall sorry to do this on main but i have to get some emergency dental work done next month and have officially maxed out all my credit cards 😍🤍 if anybody has an extra dollar or two to spare id really appreciate it

venmo

mutuals feel free to DM me for paypal etc

thanks!!

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paula nelson from jean-luc godard’s made in U.S.A aka my favorite onscreen parker 💛🧡💜

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paula nelson from jean-luc godard’s made in U.S.A aka my favorite onscreen parker 💛🧡💜