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The Girl and the Faun: Eden Phillpotts, His Crime Fiction and His Strange Relationship with His Daughter Adelaide
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ย โNo biography or autobiography is true, because no one in his senses tells the truth about himselfโฆ.Whoever wants to know me can find me in my work.โ โEden Phillpotts…
Yasmin Angoe on Morally Gray Action Thrillers and the Heroes Nena Knight Can Spar
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Iโve thought long and hard about this particular topicโcharacters, or heroes that Nena Knight, elite Ghanaian assassin from my Nena Knight trilogy, could spar with. As I worked on…
The Gilded Age: On Invention and Excess
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โWe donโt have a choice in the matter, Mr. McAllistar, we must go where history takes us.โ In the HBO Gilded Age series, these were Bertha Russellโs brave words…
Past Crimes: Excerpt and Cover Reveal
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On May 13th, 2034, twenty-three-year-old Joy Ruiz disappeared. On July 19th, 2037, Cassie West sat at a table inside an encrypted Lockbox in front of the young womanโs grieving…
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…
The Cowboy Detective, Undercover and in Danger Among the Texas Desperados
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The following is an excerpt from Nathan Wardโs new book about Charlie Siringo: Son of the Old West, now available from Atlantic Monthly Press. ___________________________________ Along the snowy road…
Island Vacations Can Be Murder
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Sure, island vacations can be fun, relaxing, and restorative. But thatโs if youโre reading a book in a different genre. In the world of crime, island vacations can be…
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:…