Shop Talk: Megan Abbott Drinks Two Diet Cokes, Makes Weird Choices, and Keeps on Writing
Crime writers talking novels, scripts, and tchotchkes
By Eli Cranor | May 20, 2021
The Late 70s and Early 1980s Heyday of Spain’s Costa del Crime
By Morgan Cry | May 19, 2021
The Art of Writing About Psychopaths: A Roundtable
By Lisa Levy | May 19, 2021
A Love Letter to the Late, Great Charles Grodin
By Olivia Rutigliano | May 19, 2021
On Murder, Metafiction, and Mashups
"All art is in conversation with what’s come before, and the artist’s job is to keep the conversation going: take something that sparked her interest, add to it and change it, then pass it along."
By Daryl Gregory | May 19, 2021
A Tale of Witchcraft and Murder in Jazz Age America
In 1928, two powerful local witches faced off in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The sensational crime and spectacular trial would captivate the world.
By Crawford Smith | May 17, 2021
What Can Fiction Do For True Stories That True Crime Can't? In An Answer: Empathy
"While the "True" with a capital "T" aspect of true crime certainly has its appeal, fiction remains valuable in its ability to magnify reality and delve into the emotional truth."
By Sadie Hoagland | May 17, 2021
