Recommended reading - The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume 2, by Ross Macdonald (1994):

The Lew Archer Omnibus Volume 2

By Ross Macdonald.

Paperback.
Published 1994.
Published by Allison & Busby Ltd.
ISBN 13: 9780749002015
ISBN 10: 0749002018
ASIN: 0749002018

Description:

Omnibus of three novels featuring Lew Archer, "The Ivory Grin", "The Galton Case" and "The Blue Hammer".

The value of reading:

Reading makes life a lot easier.

Harlan Ellison - on writing:

Writing is the hardest work in the world.

I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver,

and I tell you – as if you haven’t been told a million times already – 

that writing is harder.

Lonelier.

And nobler and more enriching.

– Harlan Ellison.

On this day in movie history - The Survivor (2021):

The Survivor

directed by Barry Levinson,

written by Justine Juel Gillmer,

was released in the United States on April 27, 2022.
Based on the book Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano, by Alan Scott Haft.
Also, the graphic novel The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft, by Reinhard Kleist.
Music by Hans Zimmer.

Cast:

Ben Foster, Billy Magnussen, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, Saro Emirze, Danny DeVito, John Leguizamo, Dar Zuzovsky, Laurent Papot, Paul Bates, Svetlana Kundish, Sonya Cullingford, Michael Epp, Erik Contzius, Kingston Vernes, Sophie Knapp, Zachary Golinger, Charles Brice, Scott Alexander Young, John Guerrasio, Pablo Raybould, Amalina Ace, Bálint Magyar, Márk Szekulesz, Aaron Serotsky, Miklós Kapácsy, Andrew Hefler, Kristóf Widder, Patrick McCullough, Peter Linka, Hans Peterson, Katia Bokor, Stephen Saracco, Björn Freiberg, Nikos Brisco, Alan Jouban, Adam Zambryzcki, András Kovács, Gábor Czap, Anthony Molinari, Zsolt Erdei, Zach Anderson, Árpád Antolik, Attila Arpa, Marc Alan Austen, Jeff Burhans, Sandy Burhans, Christian Carrigan, Jim Cleary, Karim Ghajji, Emerson Henley, Roderick Hill, Ken Holmes, Zámbó István, Colton Langan, Perla Middleton, Robert Myers, Cailyn Peddle, Peter Schueller, Marc Schöttner, Ferenc Iván Szabó, Balázs Veres, Conor William Wright, Lauren Yaffe.

On this day in music history - Diamond Baby Blues, by Lee Aaron (2018):

Diamond Baby Blues

Album by Lee Aaron,

released April 27, 2018.

Track list:

Diamond Baby Blues; Mistreated; American High; I’m A Woman; Mercy; The Best Thing; Black Cat; Hard Road; In The Bedroom; Cut Way Back; You’re No Good; My Babe.

On this day in television history - Justified (2011):

Justified

Season 2. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Reckoning.

Released April 27, 2011.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, David Meunier, Peter Murnik, Kevin Rankin, Richard Speight Jr., Joseph Lyle Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Kacey Camp, Sean Donnellan, Tonja Kahlens, Savannah McReynolds, Abby Miller, Ryan Smith, Nick Warnock, Jeremy Timmins.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: Blind Spot.

Released April 27, 2010.

Directed by Michael Watkins.

Written by Graham Yost, Wendy Calhoun and Chris Provenzano.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, M.C. Gainey, Linda Gehringer, James Immekus, Ray McKinnon, David Meunier, Brent Sexton, Walton Goggins, Blake Adams, Jack Nathan Harding, Howard S. Miller, Keith Talley, Kevin ‘Repo’ Thomas.