• Noir/Hardboiled

    8 Thrillers and Horror Novels Set at Terrible Summer Camps

    These books will have you sending a postcard to your parents begging to come home early...

    July 19, 2024  By Molly Odintz
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    The Backlist: Margot Douaihy and Polly Stewart Revisit Patricia Highsmith's 'Edith's Diary'

    Discussing Highsmith's classic of toxic suburbia

    July 17, 2024  By Polly Stewart
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    Choose Your Own Adventure: Whodunnit

    Part game, part quiz, part Mad-Libs

    July 10, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    The Weird Fiction
    That Influenced an
    Even Weirder Writer

    Author and performance artist Evan J. Peterson on the speculative noir that informed his new novel

    July 10, 2024  By Evan J. Peterson
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    Chris Offutt on Nature, Appalachia, and the "Code of the Hills"

    "In the hills, nature is a constant force—beautiful and relentless. At times brutal. The sounds of bird and wind in the leaves is a constant backdrop to the life I experienced as a child and as an adult."

    July 9, 2024  By Chris McGinley
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    Choose Your Own Adventure: Noir

    Part game, part quiz, part Mad-Libs

    July 3, 2024  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Rob Hart on ‘Assassins Anonymous’ and the Dark Appeal of the Assassin Genre

    "The assassin fits within that same mold as the gunslinger or the private eye or the ronin samurai. They're guided by an internal moral compass that sometimes feels more precise than the law. So I think there's some wish fulfillment there."

    June 27, 2024  By Nick Kolakowski
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    In Memory Of Thuglit, The Lit Mag You Should Have Read

    James Queally on the life and times of a bygone noir institution.

    June 14, 2024  By James Queally
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    James Lee Burke on Hemingway, Orwell, and a New Chapter in the American Battle Against Fascism

    Another wide-ranging conversation on the state of a nation's soul.

    June 11, 2024  By David Masciotra
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    Why Humor is one of the Sharpest Tools in a Writer’s Arsenal

    Levity doesn't undercut the power of a novel—it amplifies the emotional weight of a scene

    June 11, 2024  By Rob Hart
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