• Noir/Hardboiled

    Detroit Crime Fiction: A Literary Tradition Like No Other

    Murder and Mayhem in the Motor City

    September 20, 2021  By Paul French
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    Rock Of Ages: What Graham Greene Can Teach The Modern Novelist

    In Brighton Rock, all the novelist's formidable tools are on display.

    September 17, 2021  By Craig Nova
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    Shop Talk: John Vercher on Improvising Novels, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, and Finding the Beats

    Crime authors talk craft, routine. and jiu-jitsu.

    September 16, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    Joe R. Lansdale Remembers The Genesis of Hap and Leonard and Pays Tribute to Michael K. Williams

    "People aren't standardized...That's what I liked about Leonard. He didn't fit a mold, in the way people I knew didn't fit a mold."

    September 15, 2021  By Joe R. Lansdale
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    Colson Whitehead on Why He Wrote a Heist Novel to Tell the Story of New York

    "I wanted to salute that moment of night and those nighthawks."

    September 14, 2021  By Dwyer Murphy
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    Julia Dahl On Turning to Fiction To Fill in the Emotional Gaps Left By Reportage

    Working as a reporter left too many unanswered questions. Dahl wanted to know the answers.

    September 14, 2021  By Julia Dahl
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    A Brief History of Giallo Fiction and the Italian Anti-Detective Novel

    Fascist censors conspired against crime novels. Readers ate them up. Then a new generation of Italian writers, influenced by Kafka, deconstructed them.

    September 13, 2021  By Guglielmo D'Izzia
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    Stuart Neville: Why I Will No Longer Hide My Accent

    Northern Irish writers are often instructed to tamp down their regionalism by London publishers. It's time to set aside safe bets and embrace unique voices.

    September 9, 2021  By Stuart Neville
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    McIlvanney and Me: Ian Rankin Remembers the Man Who Created Tartan Noir

    William McIlvanney's pitch black noirs, featuring Inspector Laidlaw's disturbing adventures in the Glasgow underworld, made Scotland into a world capital of crime fiction.

    September 7, 2021  By Ian Rankin
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    'The Way of the Gun’ Was a Nihilistic Rebuke To Everything Cool in Nineties Crime Cinema

    And it deserves a cult status of its own.

    September 3, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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