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    Sympathy for the Specter

    Or, why ghosts should inspire more pity than fear.

    February 9, 2023  By Johnny Compton
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    How Writing a Genderfluid Mystery Helped Me Understand Myself as Genderqueer

    "It took a fictional character in a novel to allow a real part of myself to live and breathe."

    February 9, 2023  By Jennifer Savran Kelly
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    The Year Ian Fleming Finally Started Writing His Novel

    Was he mostly just eager to avoid the looming responsibilities of real life?

    February 8, 2023  By John Higgs
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    How Writing about Immigration Helped Me Find Home

    "it took the writing of an immigration thriller for me to accept my otherness."

    February 8, 2023  By Roxana Arama
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    The Accidental Culinary Cozy Author

    "[D]escribing Cajun cuisine in my Cajun Country Mystery series made me hungry and I thought it might have the same effect on readers..."

    February 8, 2023  By Ellen Byron
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    On the 1968 Film Which Introduced the Trope of the "Black Guy Dies First"

    "Spider Baby helped introduce the modern horror concept of the Black character existing solely to die"

    February 7, 2023  By Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris
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    Harry Dean Stanton is the Hero of Every Noir

    Or, a brief taxonomy of a very strange oeuvre.

    February 6, 2023  By J. D. O'Brien
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    February 6, 2023  By CrimeReads 
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    The Novelist As Method Actor

    Or, how to get to know your characters inside and out.

    February 6, 2023  By M. J. Rose
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    Marcia Muller: A Crime Reader’s Guide to the Classics

    A guide to the life and work of "the founding mother" of the hardboiled woman as private eye.

    February 3, 2023  By Neil Nyren
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