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CrimeReads is a culture website for people who believe suspense is the essence of storytelling, questions are as important as answers, and nothing beats the thrill of a good book. It’s a single, trusted source where readers can find the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers—a literary culture that’s more robust than ever, but diffuse. Like its founding website, Literary Hub, CrimeReads is an organizing principle, curating and cultivating a daily slate of high-quality writing, a digital space where readers and writers can gather and engage. With the help of its editorial partners, CrimeReads is a site readers can rely on for smart, entertaining writing about the culture they love. Each day, alongside original content and exclusive excerpts, CrimeReads is proud to showcase an editorial feature from one of its many partners from across the literary crime community, from publishers big and small, bookstores, non-profits, librarians, and more. Source
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Featured image credit: Summer H. Howell in ‘Carrie.’ Robert Falconer/Prime via The Hollywood Reporter Article continues after advertisement I haven’t spent enough time on this website going long about how much I love Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass. But I love it. I think it’s perfect. You should go watch it right now. It’s on Netflix. If you don’t have Netflix… make a friend who does and watch it together.
Jo Piazza on Writing Convincing Art Heists and Museum Mysteries
A heist is a very particular sort of crime with a very particular emotional hold over readers. Every time that I mention to someone that I’ve written a heist book, they tell me exactly how they would pull off a heist. And some of them are pretty good. Most of them are bananas. Article continues after advertisement I’ve written so many different kinds of crimes over the past ten years that if the FBI were to pull up my Google searches, I would most definitely be on several different watch lists.
Surfing, Bananas, and Runners: Agatha Christie's Grand Year of International Travel
Agatha Christie, World Traveler Article continues after advertisement During her year on the “Empire Tour,” Agatha wrote what she called a “diary” of letters to her mother. Clara kept all these letters, and when she died, Agatha reclaimed them. Later collected in a book edited by Agatha’s grandson, Mathew Prichard, these letters provide a close look at Agatha as a traveler, from what she enjoyed to what frustrated her. Agatha wrote often, for example, of the women she encountered on the tour.
How Pinellas County, Florida Shaped the Strange Life of Conman Paul Skalnik
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Rebecca Wright Stevens on Amos Lane and Repping Alaska's Indigenous Citizens in Court
Arraignment of Amos Lane in District Court Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska August 6, 1993 Article continues after advertisement When I pushed open the heavy gray doors of the courtroom, heads turned toward me as though it were a wedding, but nobody smiled. I wished I weren’t dragging a suitcase, but I’d come straight from the airport because my office said arraignment had already begun. I stashed the suitcase in a back corner and headed up the aisle.
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Gary Phillips On Graphic Novels Featuring Robberies
On the psypost.org site, there’s an article about a new study published in the online journal PLOS ONE, where it was stated: “Reading a book involves a complex series of mental tasks. A reader must decode words, interpret pictures, and connect new information to what they already know. To do this efficiently, the human brain builds what scientists call a story schema.
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