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Memories of a Coroner's Daughter

Memories of a Coroner's Daughter

How Growing Up With The Dead Made Me Into A Crime Writer

By Jennifer Graeser Dornbush | August 27, 2020

Carl Hiaasen on Palm Beach, Slithery Characters, and Florida Crime Fiction

Carl Hiaasen on Palm Beach, Slithery Characters, and Florida Crime Fiction

The author's latest novel takes on absurdity and corruption in the Mar-a-Lago set.

By Dwyer Murphy | August 25, 2020

How Are Crime Authors Going to Address the Pandemic in Their New Books?

How Are Crime Authors Going to Address the Pandemic in Their New Books?

Wendy Corsi Staub talks with today's authors to find out how they're tackling the new era of COVID.

By Wendy Corsi Staub | August 25, 2020

Uva de Aragón:

Uva de Aragón: "A Novel Is a Closed World"

Teresa Dovalpage and Uva de Aragón discuss Cuban fiction, food, and writing across languages.

By Teresa Dovalpage | August 25, 2020

Learning to Write <br>From My Mother

Learning to Write
From My Mother

Some writers are self-taught. Some go to school. And some learn from family what it means to craft a story.

By Peter Abrahams | August 24, 2020

What Is the Canadian Dream? And How Do You Write About It?

What Is the Canadian Dream? And How Do You Write About It?

In part two of a roundtable discussion, women crime authors discuss systemic injustice, police brutality, and pandemic writing.

By Lisa Levy | August 21, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Why Are We So Fascinated by Houses in Literature?

By Kate Riordan | August 21, 2020

Jack Reacher and The Grand Unified Theory of Thrillers

By Malcolm Gladwell | August 20, 2020

The Women of Canadian Crime Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion

By Lisa Levy | August 20, 2020

Music History, Noir, and the Plot Against Hip Hop

Music History, Noir, and the Plot Against Hip Hop

Author, filmmaker, and music journalist Nelson George on the book-within-a-book that appears in all his novels.

By Nelson George | August 20, 2020

Lawrence Osborne's Uncanny Bangkok

Lawrence Osborne's Uncanny Bangkok

The author discusses expats, fugitives, and the Bangkok apartment building that inspired his latest novel.

By Dwyer Murphy | August 18, 2020

Memory and Alcohol: A Potent Combination for Fiction

Memory and Alcohol: A Potent Combination for Fiction

In suspense fiction, memory loss and amnesia from drinking are the perfect stand-in for our unreliable memories as a whole.

By Adele Parks | August 17, 2020

Ron Rash on Crime and Punishment in Appalachia

Ron Rash on Crime and Punishment in Appalachia

The author discusses Dostoevsky, violence, and redemption.

By Mae Miller Claxton | August 14, 2020

My First Thriller: David Morrell

My First Thriller: David Morrell

How the 'First Blood' author went from being a graduate student writing Faulkner imitations to reinventing the action novel.

By Rick Pullen | August 13, 2020

Why Writing About Psychopaths Keeps Me Sane

Why Writing About Psychopaths Keeps Me Sane

On the perverse delights and vengeful satisfactions of channeling our darkest impulses into fiction.

By Nina Sadowsky | August 13, 2020

James Lee Burke on Art, Fascism, and the Hijacking of American Christianity

James Lee Burke on Art, Fascism, and the Hijacking of American Christianity

The legendary author's new work may be his most deeply religious to date—and among his darkest.

By David Masciotra | August 12, 2020

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