• Noir/Hardboiled

    Exploring a Reckless Vision of Los Angeles, with Ed Brubaker

    Alex Segura in conversation with Ed Brubaker about his graphic crime novel series

    August 3, 2022  By Alex Segura
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    Sunburns, Sex, and Squatters: Angst and Stress in California Noir

    Or, how to write a California crime novel when you've never actually been to Los Angeles.

    August 1, 2022  By Caroline Macon Fleischer
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    Shop Talk: Dwyer Murphy on Writing Routines, Superstitions, and Reading Elmore Leonard Like a Bible

    Crime writers talking craft, classics, and too much coffee.

    July 28, 2022  By Eli Cranor
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    Some Things in Anthony Bourdain's Trip to Taipei Made No Sense

    Almost a decade after the episode aired, author Ed Lin still finds himself thinking about Bourdain's trip to Taiwan.

    July 27, 2022  By Ed Lin
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    August, 1896: A Heat Wave Spawns a Crime Wave in Gilded Age New York

    "[V]iolent crimes such as murder and assaults spike in hot weather, and the hotter the weather the worse the crime..."

    July 27, 2022  By W. H. Flint
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    10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s 

    Andrew Nette on the birth of neo-noir and the films that deserve to come out from the shadow of the period's iconic masterpieces.

    July 26, 2022  By Andrew Nette
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    My First Thriller: Laura Lippman

    How Lippman went from Baltimore reporter to crime fiction icon...with a few obstacles along the way.

    July 21, 2022  By Rick Pullen
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    Exploring the Complexity of Love Through Crafting A Criminal Family 

    "I knew what it was like for my family to love me, but also do and say things that hurt me too."

    July 15, 2022  By Alex Temblador
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    Liz Michalski On Peter Pan, Motherhood, and the Meaning of Perpetual Youth

    "Peter Pan’s story has been told for years — now it’s the turn of the Darling women."

    July 14, 2022  By Molly Odintz
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    Theater and Other
    Criminal Acts

    What famous crime stories and films borrow from theater

    July 13, 2022  By Ann Aptaker
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