THIS WEEK: In 1903 (Feb. 13), Georges Simenon is born in Liège, Belgium..
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- Crime writer Michael Nava, author of the Henry Rios series, is taking his iconic gay detective to the podcast world and reissuing the whole series under Nava’s new imprint, Persigo Press. | Bay Area Reporter
- “I am Otherness, and so is my work.” Gabino Iglesias talks with Benjamin Whitmer about barrio noir, being popular in France, and the everyday hustle of writing. | LARB
- Kristen Lepionka takes a look at Celia Fremlin’s 1960 Edgar Winner The Hours Before Dawn in the next installment of an ongoing series revisiting award winners. | Criminal Element
- “No patch of snow or rusty sidewalk blower is trivial enough to escape the collusion, death threats and property destruction that have long been hallmarks of doing business in la belle ville.” | Maison Neuve
- Nick Kolakowski asks whether the real-life idiocy of serial killers “undermine(s) the foundation upon which so many authors have built the fictional serial-killer subgenre.” | Mystery Tribune
- Inside an undercover investigation into the paddlefish poachers of Warsaw, Missouri. | Longreads
- Re-reading the Edgar winners continues, this time with a look at Stanley Ellin’s 1958 crime novel, The Eighth Circle. | Criminal Element
- Dwyer Murphy rounds up 14 romantic comedies that also kinda count as noir, featuring 10 Things I Hate About You, The Wedding Planner, Hitch, and many more. | CrimeReads
- Lucy Foley on Agatha Christie’s radical choice to put crimes in the hands of ordinary people. | CrimeReads
- On display at NYC’s new KGB Spy Museum: a lipstick gun, listening devices, and so, so many hidden cameras. Espionage enthusiast Molly Odintz reports. | CrimeReads
- Intense highs and vengeful lows: Adele Parks recommends 8 thrillers centered around complex female friendships. | CrimeReads
- Lee Goldberg on discovering Ralph Dennis’s Hardman novels, a series of crime classics lost amongst the men’s adventure paperbacks. | CrimeReads
- Hester Young re-reads five childhood mystery classics to see which have stood the test of time, and which are better preserved in the space of memory. | CrimeReads
- Historical crime author Rhys Bowen looks at the many works of fiction to reckon with the suffering of the First World War. | CrimeReads
- Author and former detective David Swinson on the books he returns to, time and time again, throughout his career. | CrimeReads
- Robert Fieseler examines the immediate aftermath of the Up Stairs Lounge fire in 1973, when police indifference allowed a suspected arsonist to flee the scene. | CrimeReads
- “There are plenty of ways silence can be violent.” Mariana Dimópulos discusses the creation and the destruction of the self in her new novel. | CrimeReads
