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This month marks Stephen King’s sixty-fifth birthday, more than half a lifetime since he released The Shining, a novel inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. I’ve passed by the Stanley...
View ArticleA Crime Writer Turns to Crime, and Other News
A Texas crime writer has been sentenced to thirty years for paying to have her husband murdered. Ten things you may not have known about the Brothers Grimm. Is horror a genre beyond redemption? Or, as...
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From Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World, a 1908 book—putatively nonfiction—by Clifton R. Wooldridge, “the Incorruptible Sherlock Holmes of America.” In his agony [Devel]...
View ArticleThe Death Instinct
The autobiography of one of France’s most notorious criminals. Mesrine’s mugshot, 1973. On the morning of November 2, 1979, a gold BMW pulled up behind a blue truck stopped at a stoplight in Porte de...
View ArticleThe True True Detective, and Other News
Two covers from True Detective, a true-crime magazine. Image via io9 “Several times the proper business of bed has been interrupted by mosquitoes,” Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend on her honeymoon...
View ArticlePoets Saving Parks, and Other News
From a WPA poster for Yosemite. When I think of the Beats, I think of drugs, of brooding nights in dens of iniquity, of casual misogyny. But it’s time to revamp their public image: they were also, as...
View ArticleThe Difficulty in Writing About Murder
Anna Maria Island, on Florida’s Gulf Coast. My mother-in-law enjoys quilting, prosecco, chocolates, family photographs, geraniums, skim milk, and the new children’s wing at the public library. She is...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
View ArticleThe Hidden Harper Lee
Harper Lee. Photo: Michael Brown. © Michael Brown. At the end of the profile that Harper Lee wrote of Truman Capote when he published In Cold Blood, she speculated that “Kansans will spend the rest of...
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