Links
Wikipedia page on Don Carpenter - I finally got around to starting one.
the Internet Movie Database entry for Don Carpenter - includes information on Payday
the allmovie.com entry for Payday
obituary by Grover Sales - includes some excerpts from the novels
obituary from the San Francisco Examiner
obituary from the San Francisco Chronicle
The Brautigan Bibliography plus+ - an amazingly comprehensive page on Don Carpenter's best friend, the writer Richard Brautigan
A Vanity Fair article from 1985 on the life and death of Richard Brautigan has several quotes from Don Carpenter
Ken Lopez has some interesting descriptions of letters and postcards from Truman Capote to Don Carpenter
An interview with Jonathan Lethem where he name-checks Carpenter as "the best postwar U.S. novelist still untouched by the present revival boom"
Industry tales of epic despair - an LA Times article about Hollywood novels that mentions Carpenter's "The Art of the Film" novella from "Murder of the Frogs" as one of the "10 less-well-known books" about Hollywood.
Ken Tucker extolls the virtues of Hard Rain Falling and Payday.
I found a couple of not particularly insightful reviews of Turnaround and A Couple Of Comedians on Time magazine's site.