CrimeReads Brief: Week of October 14, 2018
THIS WEEK: In 1963, From Russia with Love premiered.
- “A few years before he’d been a doctoral student with a lingering boyhood affection for baseball. Now it was time to report to federal prison.” How a baseball-fan-turned-hacker’s trips to the Houston Astros server landed him in prison. | Sports Illustrated
- How overturning wrongful convictions paradoxically reinforces faith in the criminal justice system as a whole. | Boston Review
- “The company’s motto is “Peace in Uncertain Times,” and (needless to say ) business is booming.” Investigating what it means to feel protected. | Topic
- Claire O’Dell rounds up the best of the science fiction crossover mystery, featuring Marie Lu, Malka Older, Nnedi Okorafor, and many more. |CrimeReads
- “I am, by nature, a loner. I watch and listen; the writer’s job.” Joe Ide on Sherlock Holmes, Los Angeles and the strange nature of instant fame. | CrimeReads
- Leslie S. Klinger on the early days of American crime fiction and the movement from puzzles to noirs. | Criminal Element
- Hackers, assassins, and deadly apparitions: all the best thrillers to read this October. | CrimeReads
- Sarah Larson on the new crop of “noir-journalism” podcasts, and how Dr. Death and other programs are striking the balance between lurid crime stories and public safety issues. | The New Yorker
- Meet the Texas women who are taking over the world of true crime podcasting. | Houston Chronicle
- “We’re all unreliable narrators.”—Tana French on gaslighting, giving voice to new perspectives, and whether there’s such a thing as a feminist crime novel. | CrimeReads
- Paul French’s “Crime and the City” column travels to Phnom Penh and looks at the burgeoning noir scene in Cambodia’s capital city. | CrimeReads
- Lou Berney on a longstanding fascination with characters on the run, and what he learned about life and storytelling from 10 classic chase novels. | CrimeReads
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