• Essays

    Rethinking Genre, or, The Great Genre Rebellion

    Wendy Walker on psychological thrillers, finding your niche, and experimenting with genre conventions.

    June 13, 2023  By Wendy Walker
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    How Being Called a Plagiarist Made Me a Writer

    "How could I find my voice, one that no one could claim was someone else’s?"

    June 12, 2023  By Siena Sterling
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    The Businessman and the Author

    How a series of suspicious deaths and an intriguing story about Russia, told at a Bahamas estate, turned into a wild new novel.

    June 9, 2023  By Josh Haven
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    Soundtracks to Accompany Four Classic Supernatural Novels

    Nothing sets the mood like an entrancing instrumental score

    June 9, 2023  By Jeremy P. Bushnell
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    Drinking, Dancing, and Breaking the Law: Nightlife in the Jazz Age

    Upscale speakeasies, working class bars, and a thriving queer subculture were all parts of going out during Prohibition.

    June 8, 2023  By Katharine Schellman
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    Historical Research as Procedural

    "[H]istorical research can offer a crime writer their own experience of investigation."

    June 8, 2023  By Katharine Beutner
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    'Lou Grant' and The Newspaper Business's Moment on Primetime TV

    Keith Roysdon on a dated, but still relevant look at the news industry.

    June 7, 2023  By Keith Roysdon
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    High Tech in Low Places: The Makings of the Tech Bro Villain

    Or, tech bros as (evil) magicians

    June 7, 2023  By James Byrne
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    How The Homes of My Past Continue To Haunt My Life

    "There it is—the familiar clink of a key in its lock. The scrape of metal on metal. A hot blast of air on my face."

    June 6, 2023  By Adorah Nworah
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    Crime and the City: Panama City

    International intrigue (and crime fiction) around the Canal Zone.

    June 5, 2023  By Paul French
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