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Review: Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff

Art Taylor / August 26, 2013

Dashiell Hammett has figured frequently as a character in other writers’ fictions, often with a swift plot and a sharp […]

Art Taylor / July 22, 2013

This coming Saturday—July 27—from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.—I’ll be leading the workshop “Bring Life to Your Characters and Shape to Your

Art Taylor / July 21, 2013

Over the last week or so, I’ve been catching up on recent issues of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, taking some

I’m thrilled to have had two stories appearing in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine this year—the second of which has just

My story “When Duty Calls” has been very good to me—as have the members and supporters of Mystery Readers International

Art Taylor / June 17, 2013

Nearly 10 years ago, I was fortunate to be a finalist for North American Review‘s first Kurt Vonnegut Prize for

Art Taylor / June 16, 2013

Thanks so much to the good folks at Literary Mama (and to Colleen Kearney Rich, specifically) for including me as

A couple of reading/writing/reviewing deadlines sidelined my ability to keep up with the blog posts here on my Story A

Another story from the Cornell Woolrich collection I started yesterday—this one more of a straight whodunit, but with some grisly

Just got in the mail the Centipede Press collection Speak to Me of Death: The Collected Short Fiction of Cornell

Flash fiction obviously works on the less is more principle—relying on being suggestive rather than exhaustive in its descriptions of

In addition to reading the complete stories of Stanley Ellin, Tara and I have also been working out way—aloud—through the