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Bad Timing (for me) With Bouchercon

As a supposed crime fiction aficionado and critic and even a writer of mystery fiction, it seems like I should have […]

When Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was named this year’s Nobel Laureate in Literature yesterday, I had to go to Wikipedia to

On Tuesday, October 7, I was among a far-too-small audience for “Books — Before and Beyond: Publishing in the 21st

I’m rereading John Hart’s books now for an essay I’m writing for the North Carolina Literary Review, and I’ve also been

Well… almost. I’ve still got two articles to finish writing before I can reward myself with reading Roth’s latest, Indignation

This week and next provide great boons for lovers of short mystery fiction. First up is the latest installment of

The closing of Olsson’s Books earlier this week marks a sad footnote in current economic woes and a sad chapter in

Today’s Washington Post (October 1) ran my review of Night of Thunder, Stephen Hunter’s new Bob Lee Swagger novel. Even those

On the heels of one of yesterday’s posts, a quick plug for two great books here. In writing my article

Well… I am. And this post, combined with the last one, only proves how quickly a blog reverts to navel-gazing and

The latest issue of Mystery Scene has just arrived and features, as always, a wealth of information about the mystery

Last night brought the closing event of the 2008 Fall for the Book Festival: an appearance by Michael Cunningham, author