For a number of years now, book publisher Akashic Books has been publishing collections of noir fiction short stories set in cities around the world. […]
Crime
Dark Thriller: Dennis Lehane
Matchmaker Michele Hirschfeld writes: I was so excited to see that Dennis Lehane had published a new novel, but also apprehensive about how it might […]
YA Psychological Thriller with a twist!
Have you ever thought about what a crossover between Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs, but with teenage protagonists, would look like? Well, look […]
Weird Fiction Spotlight: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Weird Fiction is a difficult genre to describe, but you know it when you read it. Stories that get categorized as Weird Fiction often take […]
Beware of Scrabble Playing Argentines in Blimps
A short history lesson: poker began to be televised in the late 1990s. What was once a card game played in casinos and at family card […]
John le Carre and the CIA
John le Carre, the master of espionage fiction, died this past weekend. A former MI5 and MI6 spy for Britain, his novels showed the solitary, […]
Classic Films: Rashomon
I know we normally talk about books on this blog, but the book I was going to write about this week is not widely available […]
Current Obsession: Sally Hepworth
Have you ever started reading an author, really loved that author’s work, and decided to just read through all of their novels? That’s what has […]
Another Thought on Audiobooks
Inspired by Greg’s excellent post about how great audiobooks are (you should read his post if you haven’t already), I figured I’d chime in with my own […]
