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"[N]one of us is as good, or sometimes as bad, as we might imagine ourselves to be."

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Grant Morrison on Gender, Genre, and Drag

"I suppose I see genre as a kind of literary Drag or Glamour"

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Jessica Fletcher. With a Robot. In Space.

"Straddling between dark murder and lighthearted alien adventures was a real challenge..."

October 3, 2022  By Mur Lafferty
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On the Importance of Character and Setting

Anne Emery on series that infuse their settings with character, and vice versa.

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The Myth and the Reality of Violence in the Old West

"If our hope is for a more robust understanding of history, we must seek out the true villains in every story and update our myths accordingly."

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Alice in Murderland: On Crime Writer Alice Campbell

Meet Alice Dorothy Ormond Campbell, mistress of the atmospheric mystery.

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Joe R. Lansdale and Jussi Piironen Talk Graphic Novels and Noir

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Celebrating Sisters in Crime at Thirty-Five

"Sisters in Crime has been fighting the patriarchy for 35 years."

September 23, 2022  By Sandra S. G. Wong
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Lamar Giles on Social Horror in Fact and Fiction

"It’s fun as fiction if it remains fiction. That’s sort of up to society though, isn’t it?"

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Why Lawyers Make Such Good (and Bad) Mystery Novelists

Allen Eskens makes the case for writers with legal experience.

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