Interviews
David L. Ulin on Capturing the Special, Despairing Noir of the West
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David L. Ulin has spent the better part of thirty years as the preeminent book critic in the West; first at the late, great, LA Reader and then as…
Black Horror Fiction Has Always Been Here. Whatโs Changed Is The Attitudes of Gatekeepers.
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2023 has, so far, been a year full of innovative and mind-bending anthologies, andย Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horrorย is one of the best. With an incredible…
The Backlist: Revisiting Steven Hamiltonโs โThe Lock Artistโ with Elle Cosimano
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When I started writing crime fiction, what I worried about most was all the stuff you had to know. I had never been a criminal, a detective, a private…
Jesse Q. Sutanto on Toxic Friendships, Shrinking Attention Spans, and Finding the Muse
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As one of the terminally online, I really enjoyed the recent โhow often men think about the Roman Empireโ discourse on Twitter. One response that went viral claimed that…
Shop Talk: Lou Berney Is a Fanatical Believer in Naps
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Lou Berney is one of the reasons I write crime fiction. Coming up, I cut my teeth on Southern writers like Flannery OโConnor, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, and Jesmyn…
The Western Meets Weird Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion
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Once a narrowly defined genreโset in the American frontier of the 19th Centuryโthe definition of Western has expanded with contemporary takes from such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Ivy Pochoda,…
Sean Howe on High Times Magazine and Its Enigmatic, Larger-than-Life Editor
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For someone who would dress all in black in the guise of a priest or in a dapper all-white suit, there remain shades of gray surrounding Thomas King Forcade…
Michele Campbell Leans into the Truth
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Michele Campbell worked at a prominent Manhattan law firm before spending eight years fighting crime as a federal prosecutor in New York City. She launched her fiction career in…
Why James Patterson and Mike Lupica Came Together to Write a Thriller
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For such a hotshot lawyer whoโs never lost a court case, youโre a lot younger than anyone would expect. And itโs your win/loss record, not your good looks, thatโs…