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    Julia Dahl On Turning to Fiction To Fill in the Emotional Gaps Left By Reportage

    Julia Dahl On Turning to Fiction To Fill in the Emotional Gaps Left By Reportage

    Working as a reporter left too many unanswered questions. Dahl wanted to know the answers.

    By Julia Dahl | September 14, 2021

    A Brief History of Giallo Fiction and the Italian Anti-Detective Novel

    A Brief History of Giallo Fiction and the Italian Anti-Detective Novel

    Fascist censors conspired against crime novels. Readers ate them up. Then a new generation of Italian writers, influenced by Kafka, deconstructed them.

    By Guglielmo D'Izzia | September 13, 2021

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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    A Karachi Crime Reporter's Journey Through Gangland

    A Karachi Crime Reporter's Journey Through Gangland

    Zille never intended to become a crime reporter. Then he caught his first big break.

    By Samira Shackle | September 13, 2021

    Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

    Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

    Shit’s hard. Life (and writing) can be a relentless grind. But somehow, Poe kept on going—and so can you.

    By Catherine Baab-Muguira | September 13, 2021

    How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

    How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

    Inside the Wild and Wacky History of Underground Rock Recordings and the Early Days of Piracy

    By Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick | September 13, 2021

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    My First Thriller: James Grady

    My First Thriller: James Grady

    In 1971, a young Capitol Hill staffer walked by an old townhouse and wondered if it could be a CIA front. The idea would become Six Days of the Condor.

    By Rick Pullen | September 9, 2021

    Transformation and Transcendence in <br>1980s Body Horror

    Transformation and Transcendence in
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    On David Cronenberg, Clive Barker, and the embrace of the grotesque as a representation of lived experience.

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    No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

    No One Has Ever Lived In The Past. So How Can Writers Accurately Represent History?

    On The Challenges of Writing Historical Crime Fiction

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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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    10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

    10 Crime Novels About The Cutthroat Business of Culture

    Go behind the scenes in these tales of love, murder and revenge among the glitterati. 

    By Helen Walsh | September 7, 2021

    McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

    McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

    William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

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    Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

    Lisa Jewell on Craft, Inspiration, and Why She Needed to Write a Boarding School Murder Mystery

    More than twenty years later, Jewell still resists making any firm plans for her novels.

    By Daneet Steffens | September 7, 2021

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