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    Kill Your TV: How a Childhood Free of the Idiot Box Gave Katy Hays the Power of Attention

    "I am wired, I notice with increasing frequency, for things that develop more slowly, more deliberately."

    March 25, 2025  By Katy Hays
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    How to Create a Character for Our (or Any Other) Unjust Time

    Ron Currie on writing fiction through a dark period.

    March 25, 2025  By Ron Currie
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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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

    March 24, 2025  By CrimeReads 
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    Which Kind of Martini is Each James Bond?

    A drink menu of personality types!

    March 21, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano and John Buffalo Mailer
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    Great Middle Grade Mysteries for All Ages

    "When I thought about the readers I wanted to reach...I knew that a mystery was the way to grab them—and a series was the way to keep them reading."

    March 21, 2025  By Alyson Gerber
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    A Brief History of 1970s Disaster Movies

    The special effects were sometimes lacking, but the stars sure turned out for these thrillers about things blowing up, catching fire, and falling apart.

    March 21, 2025  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Role of Family Secrets in Crime Novels and Thrillers

    How family histories and secrets serve as catalysts for criminal behavior and plot development.

    March 21, 2025  By January Gilchrist
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    Detections and Digressions:
    A Close Reading of P.D. James’ Devices and Desires

    James set out to capture British society more broadly than her predecessors, yet her novels had more in common with the Golden Age than she ever cared to admit

    March 20, 2025  By Curtis Evans
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    Sherlock Holmes
    Vs. the French

    On Holmes's smack-talk about French detectives

    March 19, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Elon Green on the 1980s Police Brutality Case That Brought New York's Art Scene Together In Protest

    In 1983, 25-year-old graffiti artist Michael Stewart died after a brutal police beating. Artists, musicians, and East Village denizens soon united in outrage.

    March 19, 2025  By James Polchin
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