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Stop Using Public Housing For Your Misery Porn

Housing projects are places of struggle, but also optimism; they are full of human lives, and alive with human stories.

The Crime Books Top Authors Read Twice Because They’re Just That Good

Kate White asked fellow authors Harlan Coben, Lisa Unger, Alafair Burke and others about the books they keep revisiting.

The Seven Essential Elements of Fishing-Related Crime Fiction

Obsessives and eccentrics populate the fishing world. You better know your stuff if you're going to set your crime fiction there.

Immortalizing Jack Reacher

Authors of long-running series face a difficult question: how should their characters age?

Donna Leon: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

For thirty years, Leon's Venetian mysteries have entranced readers. New readers are discovering her work all the time.

Deadpool Creator Fabian Nicieza on (Finally) Finishing His Novel

It only took 35 years of writing comics to learn that 35 years of writing comics would help him write his debut mystery.

For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

How Elizabeth Bowen's Big Houses Laid the Groundwork for Irish Domestic Noir

Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Elizabeth Bowen chronicled the death of her class through her sinister depictions of the "big house."

"Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin": On Art, Theft, and Inspiration

Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

A List of Books That Are Not Quite Noir (But Also Not Not Noir)

"[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

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Housing projects are places of struggle, but also optimism; they are full of human lives, and alive with human stories.

Kate White asked fellow authors Harlan Coben, Lisa Unger, Alafair Burke and others about the books they keep revisiting.

Obsessives and eccentrics populate the fishing world. You better know your stuff if you're going to set your crime fiction there.

Authors of long-running series face a difficult question: how should their characters age?

For thirty years, Leon's Venetian mysteries have entranced readers. New readers are discovering her work all the time.

It only took 35 years of writing comics to learn that 35 years of writing comics would help him write his debut mystery.

Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

Anglo-Irish aristocrat and author Elizabeth Bowen chronicled the death of her class through her sinister depictions of the "big house."

Laura Lippman revisits Philip Roth's 'Zuckerman Unbound'

"[N]oir has rules, the same way irony does, and I really don’t know what they are...Instead I’ll say this is a list of voices with some darkness in them."

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