Noir/Hardboiled
James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes
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โA literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all, and will not last.โ Frank OโConnor laid it out. He wrote the words at the cusp of the…
Joyce Carol Oates on Women and the Roots of Body Horror
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Of mythological figures of antiquity, none are more monstrous than harpies, furies, gorgonsโScylla and Charybdis, Lamia, Chimera, Sphinxโnightmare creatures representing, to the affronted male gaze, the perversion of โfemininityโ:…
The Backlist: Revisiting Vicki Hendricksโ โMiami Purityโ with Alex Segura
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I didnโt know what to expect from a novel called Miami Purity. Was it about nuns, or one of those creepy abstinence-only pledges for teens? I had no idea…