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Noir/Hardboiled
The Big Sleep and The Black Cat
Or, searching for queer culture in the era of hard-boiled fiction.
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Lev AC Rosen
| October 24, 2022
Where is the ‘Street Crime’ in ‘Crime Fiction?’
Crimes that are both everyday and yet brutal seem to be front and center only in a small subset of the mystery/thriller/suspense genre. Is that taste, craft—or something that should make us all a little uncomfortable?
By
Christopher Chambers
| October 21, 2022
"If Found Please Return to Abigail Serna 158 3/4 E MLK Blvd"
Désirée Zamorano
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| October 13, 2022
5 Uniquely Chicanx/Latinx Representations in Crime Fiction
These novels by writers from historically marginalized communities create rendezvous-points of cultural negotiation by appropriating major commercial genres.
By
Christopher David Rosales
| October 13, 2022
The Literary Blood Feud between Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald
Or, The Way Some Crime Writers Decry...
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Curtis Evans
| October 7, 2022
From Surviving Evil to Prosecuting Evil to Writing Evil
"I was 30 when I first prosecuted a child sexual abuse case, the eventual focus of my life’s work as an attorney."
By
Roger A. Canaff
| October 5, 2022
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Why Cold War Noir is Back in Play
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M. Z. Urlocker
| September 30, 2022
The Myth and the Reality of Violence in the Old West
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Chase Pletts
| September 29, 2022
O Brother, Where Art Thou Contemporary Southern Women Writers?
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Kelly J. Ford
| September 28, 2022
On Theda Bara and the Origins of the Vamp
Or, How Rudyard Kipling Brought Sex to the Movies
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Michael Mayo
| September 27, 2022
How Rudy Ruiz and His Neo-Western Aim to Change the Conversation About the U.S.-Mexico Border
A Tortured History in the Valley of Shadows
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Rudy Ruiz
| September 27, 2022
Six YA Thrillers where Teens Fight the System
In these books, adolescents question everything...
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Stephanie Kuehn
| September 26, 2022
Joe R. Lansdale and Jussi Piironen Talk Graphic Novels and Noir
"When you actually present the characters, you have to hope the art, their appearance, is convincing and satisfying for the audience." - Joe R. Lansdale
By
CrimeReads
| September 26, 2022
Why Lawyers Make Such Good (and Bad) Mystery Novelists
Allen Eskens makes the case for writers with legal experience.
By
Allen Eskens
| September 20, 2022
S. A. Cosby: Interview and Cover Reveal
"[Southern noir] is the gospel of the dispossessed."
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CrimeReads
| September 19, 2022
Florence Fiction: A Criminal Renaissance
Crime and the City visits the birthplace of the Renaissance, a city known for art, style, food...and mystery.
By
Paul French
| September 19, 2022
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