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    The Coming-of-Age Thriller: Its Power and Poignance

    Eight novels that explore what happens when the road to adulthood is paved with the stuff of nightmares

    March 18, 2021  By Debbie Babitt
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    Ten Pulp Crime Authors Recommended By Stephen King

    Stephen King's favorite Hard Case Crime titles

    March 18, 2021  By Hard Case Crime
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    This Saint Patrick's Day, you should watch The Fugitive

    Most people don't realize that the beloved thriller is a "Saint Patrick's Day movie," or even what that means, but it is. Oh, it is.

    March 17, 2021  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Murder Tourism in Middle America: The World of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

    Notes from a road trip to Holcomb, Kansas, where Capote once chronicled the murder of the Clutter family.

    March 17, 2021  By Justin St. Germain
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    Five Novels About Solving Crimes in Native Communities

    These books are about crimes. But they're also about laughter, love, loyalty, and healing.

    March 17, 2021  By Angeline Boulley
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    Gothic Fiction and the Deepest, Darkest Possibilities of Sibling Relationships

    From Wilkie Collins and Henry James down to today's masters, these authors explore the intense space between siblings.

    March 17, 2021  By Elizabeth Brooks
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    Lolita isn't a love story. It's a gothic horror novel.

    "Like Tom Ripley and Patrick Bateman—and Count Dracula and Hannibal Lecter—Humbert fascinates mainly because of the chasm between his sophisticated urbanity and his brutal rapaciousness."

    March 16, 2021  By Christina Baker Kline
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    On Keeping Chickens in the Literary Enclave of Oxford, Mississippi

    Melissa Ginsburg contemplates the meaning of community during lockdown, and delivers eggs to her neighbors.

    March 16, 2021  By Melissa Ginsburg
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    Forever Trespassing Into History: An Author's Reflections on Retelling Historical Episodes as Fiction

    In 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from a post in the Outer Hebrides. It was a story Emma Stonex needed to tell.

    March 16, 2021  By Emma Stonex
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    How Reading Mystery Novels Made Me a Better Fantasy Writer

    Studying the craft behind a great mystery novel is a worthy endeavor for writers working in any genre.

    March 16, 2021  By Kim Neville
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