• Craft

    Paul Vidich on Cold War Espionage, a CIA Cover-Up, and a Family Tragedy

    The author's uncle was dosed with LSD and died outside a New York City hotel. Now, he's exploring that crime in a new thriller.

    March 6, 2020  By Kevin Larimer
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    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    March 5, 2020  By William Boyle
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    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    Dangerous partners, queer icons, and a story that became a crime novel.

    March 5, 2020  By Russ Thomas
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    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    The author's noirs capture the borough in all its madcap, desperate, violent complexity.

    March 3, 2020  By Daneet Steffens
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    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.

    March 3, 2020  By Ed Ruggero
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    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    Everything you wanted to know about changing diapers and solving fictional murders but were afraid to ask.

    March 2, 2020  By Jason Pinter
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    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    On growing up in the Bronx, and spinning stories in the basement.

    February 28, 2020  By Robert Desiderio
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    Don't Go Into the Basement! (Let's Be Honest, We're Going Into the Basement)

    What writing horror (and hearing noises in the night) taught me about the impulse to explore—even in the face of danger.

    February 27, 2020  By Darcy Coates
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    How to Turn A Man into a Legend

    Why I chose to take real-life Arctic explorer Matthew Henson, drop him in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance, and have him solve a murder.

    February 25, 2020  By Gary Phillips
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    The Life and Work of C.W. Grafton: Crime Novelist, Lawyer, and Father to a Mystery Icon

    He's remembered now as the father of Sue Grafton. But for a brief period, he was one of crime fiction's most promising authors.

    February 21, 2020  By L. Wayne Hicks
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