• Noir/Hardboiled

    Shop Talk: Jordan Harper Pulls Down the Blinds, Turns Up the Heat, and Writes Novels on Hotel Stationery

    Crime writers discuss cold brew coffee and riding the tiger.

    July 15, 2021  By Eli Cranor
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    Why Dolores Hitchens' Less-Than-Glamorous Detective Is the Quiet Hero We Need

    "[James Sader] fumbles through both novels without the benefit of any special charisma or genius. What he does have are the plain, well-worn tools of integrity and tenacity..."

    July 12, 2021  By Steph Cha
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    Quentin Tarantino Wrote a "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" Novel—Here's What You Need to Know

    This is not your usual novelization of a movie. It's much stranger.

    July 12, 2021  By Nick Kolakowski
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    The Strange Story of Orson Welles' Lost Film, Mr. Arkadin

    The 1955 film was supposed to be Welles' masterpiece. Or maybe it was just a lark. Or a KGB-funded money laundering enterprise.

    July 9, 2021  By Craig Pittman
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    Sunny Palm Springs Is A Perfect Setting for Noir

    "On a steamy summer day, the residential streets are absent of people and can possess an unsettling quiet. Where is everyone?"

    July 8, 2021  By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett
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    7 Coming-of-Age Mysteries That Capture "The Oddness of the Moment in Question"

    Will these protagonists succumb to the rigid spaces of adulthood, or rebel and find a path all their own?

    July 6, 2021  By Rachel Donohue
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    I Once Interviewed A Murderer Before He Was Caught. He Seemed Perfectly Normal.

    A reporter-turned-crime writer thinks back on an unsettling encounter with a killer.

    July 5, 2021  By Jackie Kabler
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    The Case of Perry Mason’s Courtroom Cousin

    In 1936, Erle Stanley Gardner was thinking of killing off his most famous character. Instead, he created a new kind of lawyer.

    July 2, 2021  By J. Kingston Pierce
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    Heather Levy on Sex, Drugs, Chronic Pain, and Her New Novel

    This Week on Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast

    July 1, 2021  By Unlikeable Female Characters 
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    What Makes The Suburbs So Terrifying?

    On The New Golden Age of Suburban Noir

    July 1, 2021  By Aggie Blum Thompson
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