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Central Crime Zone: 2011/07

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Jul 21, 2011. Who will Sookie choose? Or will she just Walk away? Charlaine Harris has afforded me many memorable scenes over the years. I started with Aurora Teagarden. Charlaine’s small town librarian who ends up married to a man of the world. I’m not even sure how I got there. Was it a blurb on the back? Was it a recommendation from a friend? How I’ve enjoyed her ascent from low mid-list to the upper echelons of sales. 1,000,000 downloads anyone? How about every book being in print? Links to this post.

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Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino

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Gilbert Sorrentino (1929-2006) led a life. As intertextual as his fictions. In the Army. Medical Corps during the Korean War, he. Met up with William Carlos Williams, and a. Letter from Sorrentino shows up in Williams’. Most celebrated longer work. During his stint as an. Editor at Grove Press,. Various stripes. But his. Own books would take. Second seat to none in. Their daring and sheer. Yet brews so strong were hardly likely to find. A mainstream audience. It was all too revealing. RETURN TO HOME PAGE.

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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

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Essay by Ted Gioia. Who turned paranoia into a literary style? Itself possesses a distinguished cultural pedigree, going. Back to the ancient Greek dramatists, who used it to. Describe the affair of Oedipus and Jocasta as well as. The mindset of Orestes after he murders his mother. Clytemnestra. But paranoia didn't. Take center stage in literature until. The first half of the 20th Century,. When Kafka, Lovecraft, Orwell and. Others exploited it in their stories,. Partly as a plot device but even more.

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The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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By Friedrich Dürrenmatt. At the debut of his first play,. Fights broke out in the audience—a response. That Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) no. Doubt saw as a sign of. Drama Dürrenmatt’s. Concept of epic theater. Sion and entertainment—. So fisticuffs may well. To polite applause. My grandfather was once. Sent to prison for ten days because of a poem. He wrote, Friedrich Dürrenmatt once noted. I haven't been honored in that way yet. His most famous works,. 1961), combined tragic and. Essay by Ted Gioia.

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The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe

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Essay by Ted Gioia. There’s no good reason why a detective story. Published in 1937 should be so cussedly postmodern. The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor. Over the course of 200 pages, our mysterious. Remained a secret until. 1974—dishes up enough. Intertextual intrigue and meta-. Narrative mischief to keep a. Yale graduate seminar busy. For a full semester. I'm not. Surprised that crime fiction. Author Julian Symons called. This novel the detective story. To end all detective stories. The book starts out...

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Central Crime Zone: 2011/08

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Aug 30, 2011. Crimespree issue 43 ready to ship. Crimespree Magazine issue 43. Editorial by Jon Jordan. A Slice of Mystery with Avery Aames. The Perils of Writing a History Mystery with Tony Hays. COVER STORY: Get Closer to Sara Gran. Sunset Boulevard by Sara Gran. Behind the Books with Lisa Unger. Crime and Idiocy by Jen4 Jordan. FICTION: Old Friends by Anthony R . Pezzula. Morphing Into Mystery by Martin Shepard. The Long and the Short of It Darrel Janes Interviewed by Alan Orloff. Links to this post.

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Central Crime Zone: 2011/03

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Mar 28, 2011. IT IS ALL FUN and GAMES. All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of an escape". Brought to you by chapter 16 of Duane Swierczynski's FUN and GAMES. For ten years now, Ive been escaping with this writer. Stealing moments and sharing adventure. I cannot even remember who suggested the writer Duane Swiercynski to me first. It could have been anyone of a dozen people. Was it Ken Bruen, Reed Farrel Coleman, Jason Starr? And we haven't looked back. EXPIRATION DA...

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Central Crime Zone: 2011/05

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May 20, 2011. 2011 MWA University Schedule - Registration is Open. We are pleased to announce additions to our 2011 MWA University Schedule - Registration is now open. For details about MWA University, visit this link. MWA University - Waukesha, Wisconsin - Friday, June 17, 2011. University of Wisconsin Waukesha. Northview Hall – Room N133 – Main Level. 1500 N University Dr. Waukesha, WI 53188. Class/Instructor: After the Idea - Jess Lourey. Dramatic Structure and Plot - Hallie Ephron. New York, NY 10023.

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Central Crime Zone: John Connolly Interview - from 2002

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Apr 6, 2012. John Connolly Interview - from 2002. Right off, I need to ask, as an Irish author - why an American protagonist? Short question, but a very long answer. Firstly, it was very much a reaction against what I felt Irish writers were expected to write about: famine, religion, sexual repression, Britain, terrorism, how. Often it rains in Limerick. When I was growing up, Irish fiction - although sometimes superbly crafted - was pretty miserable stuff. Compassion than its British counterparts. (...