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    My First Thriller: John Gilstrap

    My First Thriller: John Gilstrap

    Lightning and serendipity. The rejections never stopped, nor did the money.

    By Rick Pullen | August 22, 2024

    William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

    William Boyle on Discovering Donna Masini and a Great 'Italian-American-Recovering-Catholic-from-Brooklyn' Novel

    Boyle and Polly Stewart revisit Masini's intense, obsessive 'About Yvonne'

    By Polly Stewart | August 22, 2024

    Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

    Kailee Pedersen: In Praise of the Difficult Women of East Asian Literature

    A list of books featuring characters whose "willingness to transgress...can be both horrifying and thrilling"

    By Kailee Pederson | August 21, 2024

    On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

    On Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in Crime Fiction

    Some decisions we make. Some are made for us. Fiction needs to acknowledge what we can (and can't) change.

    By James Wade | August 21, 2024

    The Dynamism of Growth: William Kent Krueger on Milestones and Making the Familiar Fresh Again

    The Dynamism of Growth: William Kent Krueger on Milestones and Making the Familiar Fresh Again

    The author discusses 20 novels with Cork O'Connor

    By John B. Valeri | August 21, 2024

    Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

    Where does Fiction Meet the Real World?

    "All fiction is speculative....But somewhere there is a line between reality and fiction, a gap filled with imagination rather than truth"

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    Orlando Whitfield on Art, Fraud, and Unwittingly Going into Business with a Talented Con Man

    Whitfield's new book, 'All That Glitters' tells the inside story of Inigo Philbrick's rise and fall.

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