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    How a Career as a Diplomat Informed a Life as a Writer

    "[D]iplomatic life can look charming and elegant in movies. In reality, it can prove dangerous and stressful. What does this have to do with writing? Everything."

    March 12, 2025  By Stephen Holgate
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    Nick Kolakowski on Mining the Past for a Hollywood Fixer Mystery

    In 'Where the Bones Lie,' the usual Hollywood madness is spinning out of control.

    March 11, 2025  By Nick Kolakowski
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    18th-Century Satire, Communist Anthem, 1950s Pop Song: The Many Lives of Mack the Knife

    "How did such a cruel, ruthless criminal become the subject of a Grammy award-winning hit single?"

    March 10, 2025  By Phil Lecomber
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    Turns Out, There's a Sequel to The Westing Game

    Ellen Raskin's estate contains not one but two previously unpublished mystery treasures

    March 7, 2025  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    5 Supernatural Serial Killers    

    "How can someone, or something, be stopped by authorities if their existence breaks the laws of physics?"

    March 7, 2025  By Cynthia Pelayo
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    From Out-of-Print to Global Hit: The Surprising Resurgence of Michael McDowell's Blackwater Novels

    25 years after the author’s death, the path-breaking story is more popular than ever—and this time, overseas

    March 7, 2025  By Julia Steiner
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    When Harlem Was Harlem: On 'Across 110th Street'

    Remembering Barry Michael Cooper and a film tradition in Harlem.

    March 6, 2025  By Michael Gonzales
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    Agustina Bazterrica on Violence, Dystopia, and the Power of Art

    "I write with my burned body about capitalism, about patriarchy."

    March 6, 2025  By Kevin Canfield
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    A Walking Tour of Manhattan's Chinatown and Turn-of-the-Century New York City

    "Then, as now, in New York City, real estate is everything."

    March 5, 2025  By Radha Vatsal
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    Exploring Memory Loss in Horror and Thriller Novels

    Jon Bassoff on a deeply disorienting tradition.

    March 5, 2025  By Jon Bassoff
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