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    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    Discovery and Decay: Lost in the ’90s 

    The formative obsessions that led to a new Brooklyn Noir.

    By William Boyle | March 5, 2020

    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

    The Homme Fatal: Reimagining a Noir Archetype

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

    By Russ Thomas | March 5, 2020

    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

    William Boyle's Technicolor Brooklyn Noir

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

    By Daneet Steffens | March 3, 2020

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    How to Write Believable, Realistic, and Responsible Violence

    A thriller author shares 7 lessons for writing violence.

    By Ed Ruggero | March 3, 2020

    How to Be a Crime Novelist and a Parent...Without Losing Your Mind or Your Moral Compass

    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.

    By Jason Pinter | March 2, 2020

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

    Life as a DJ Taught Me to Listen—and to Write

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

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    Unreliable Narrators Who Break Every Rule We Thought We Knew

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    Some narrators go beyond unreliability and change our very conception of narrative storytelling.

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    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

    The Difficult Art of Ending a Crime Fiction Series

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    Worldbuilding: Crime and Fantasy Books Have More in Common Than You Might Think

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    In noir, as in fantasy, it's all about finding the right details.

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    The New Wave of Thrillers Featuring Deeply Flawed Characters

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    How Raymond Chandler and the Tate-LaBianca Murders Inspired the Making of Chinatown

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