• Essays

    How to Start a Long-Running Mystery Series From Scratch

    Characters are key to keeping a series going.

    July 29, 2020  By Allison Montclair
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    True Crime Has Been Having a Moment for Three Centuries. But the New Era Is Different.

    Sarah Weinman takes stock of true crime, post-Serial.

    July 28, 2020  By Sarah Weinman
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    How a Lost Laptop and an Encounter with Criminal Bullfighters Saved My Novel

    Learning to write when inspiration strikes.

    July 28, 2020  By Stan Parish
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    How Film Noir Will Forever Change Your Worldview

    Decades later, Loren D. Estleman is still under the spell of that essential art form: the film noir.

    July 28, 2020  By Loren D. Estleman
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    It's Time for More Period Dramas to Embrace the Diversity of People of Color

    Un-Whitewashing the Past

    July 27, 2020  By Radha Vatsal
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    All in a Day's Work: Why Do the Parker Novels Still Resonate So Powerfully?

    Fifty years later, Donald Westlake's passion for the logistics of crime captures our imaginations.

    July 24, 2020  By Nick Kolakowski
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    Why Do So Many Physicists Write Crime Novels?

    Scientists and authors attempt to explain the unusual affinity between physics and crime fiction.

    July 24, 2020  By Lee Randall
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    On Class, Capitalism and Urban Planning in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

    Robert Zemeckis's visually stunning wild ride through cartoons is also a breakneck excoriation of disenfranchisement.

    July 23, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    What We Relate To When We Relate to Books

    Is it the characters, or the scenario?

    July 23, 2020  By Josh Malerman
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    The Evolution of Dennis Lehane

    How the acclaimed author's work has transformed through the decades, bringing readers some of the era's most powerful noirs.

    July 22, 2020  By Keith Roysdon
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