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Polly Stewart
The Backlist: Reading Yrsa Sigurdadottir’s 'I Remember You' with Crime by the Book's Abby Dunn
Polly Stewart and Abby Dunn are talking all things Nordic Noir.
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Polly Stewart
| August 31, 2026
The Backlist: Reading Kem Nunn's Seminal 'Surf Noir' with Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper and Polly Stewart discuss 'Tapping the Source'
By
Polly Stewart
| May 8, 2026
The Backlist: Hannah Morrissey Revisits David Ellis's Twisty Psychological Thriller
Hannah Morrissey and Polly Stewart discuss 'Look Closer'
By
Polly Stewart
| March 31, 2026
The Backlist: Hank Phillippi Ryan Revisits Jess Walter's 'Citizen Vince'
Twenty years after reading it for the first time, Ryan is still shaking her head in wonder at what Walter accomplished.
By
Polly Stewart
| January 14, 2026
The Backlist: Reading John le Carré's 'The Little Drummer Girl' with I.S. Berry
The author and former spy revisits a spy classic with Polly Stewart.
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Polly Stewart
| October 24, 2025
The Backlist: Reading Kate Elizabeth Russell's "My Dark Vanessa" with Attica Locke
Locke and Polly Stewart revisit Russell's powerhouse debut in the wake of #metoo and renewed misogyny
By
Polly Stewart
| October 1, 2025
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The Backlist: John Copenhaver and Polly Stewart Revisit Ross Macdonald's "The Zebra-Striped Hearse"
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Polly Stewart
| August 7, 2025
Polly Stewart: Why I Had to Write About Modern-Day Moonshiners
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Polly Stewart
| July 15, 2025
Danya Kukafka on Revisiting Alice Sebold's 'The Lovely Bones'
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Polly Stewart
| May 28, 2025
The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke
Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.
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Polly Stewart
| April 3, 2025
The Backlist: Reading Megan Abbott's 'Die a Little' with Clémence Michallon
Michallon and Polly Stewart revisit Abbott's debut novel.
By
Polly Stewart
| February 27, 2025
The Backlist: Reading Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', with Ashley Winstead
Ashley Winstead and Polly Stewart discuss Atwood's sprawling, genre-hopping novel.
By
Polly Stewart
| February 13, 2025
The Backlist: Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson's 'Angels'
Megan Abbott and Polly Stewart revisit Johnson's bleak and wild portrait of humanity.
By
Polly Stewart
| November 21, 2024
The Backlist: Rebecca Makkai on 'The Murderess' and Reading in Translation
Makkai and Polly Stewart discuss Alexandros Papadiamantis and the project that's taking Makkai across the world of literature.
By
Polly Stewart
| September 18, 2024
William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel
Boyle and Polly Stewart revisit Masini's intense, obsessive 'About Yvonne'
By
Polly Stewart
| August 22, 2024
The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'
Discussing Highsmith's classic of toxic suburbia
By
Polly Stewart
| July 17, 2024
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