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    Five Books Featuring Paintings That Reveal Emotional Truths About Their Characters

    "Books that grapple with visual art tend to be grappling with these very concepts, the culmination of which is, most often, mortality itself."

    September 15, 2021  By Katie Lattari
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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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    In Praise of the Slow-Burn Suspense of South and East Asian Thrillers

    There's a new wave of thrillers coming out of South and East Asia, and they're radically different from their Western counterparts.

    September 14, 2021  By Amanda Jayatissa
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    A Reader’s Guide to Crime and Suspense Fiction on the River

    Why some of crime fiction's best stories are set on rivers.

    September 14, 2021  By Rebecca Hodge
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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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    Binge-Worthy Characters in Books and on the Screen

    How to create characters who will make a deep connection over a long-running series.

    September 14, 2021  By Tori Eldridge
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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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    10 New Books Coming Out This Week

    New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.

    September 13, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times

    Shit’s hard. Life (and writing) can be a relentless grind. But somehow, Poe kept on going—and so can you.

    September 13, 2021  By Catherine Baab-Muguira
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    How One Wildly Popular Bootleg Recording Changed the Music Industry Forever

    Inside the Wild and Wacky History of Underground Rock Recordings and the Early Days of Piracy

    September 13, 2021  By Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick
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