The Floating Library takes a look at an arresting and unputdownable biography of pulp novelist David Goodis, author of Dark Passage, Cassidy’s Girl, Black Friday and many, many others. Piece begins with my introduction to Goodis via Barry Gifford’s Black Lizard series. While doing research for the review, I was sad to learn that when Vintage bought Black Lizard they let most of the crime novels fall back out of print. Also, Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway) published a new book last fall that got almost no media attention. This aggression will not stand.