Author Archives: artandliterature

Another Fun Writing Exercise: Naming!

What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, a common text for creative writing workshops,…

I’ve been reading and re-reading lately some old Ross Macdonald novels. One of my two copies of 1958’s The Doomsters…

My review of Katherine Neville’s The Fire will be published on Sunday, October 19, in the Washington Post, but through the…

Today’s L.A. Times features Sarah Weinman’s review of Leonard Cassuto’s Hard-Boiled Sentimentality (a review linked directly here and through her…

Several short items about North Carolina literature here. This Sunday, October 19, is the biennial induction ceremony for the North…

The cover story of the October issue of Metro Magazine remembers Robert Ruark, a North Carolina writer who became a…

Catching up again from three states away (or four, depending on how you drive): I’m very excited to hear that…

Even missing the festivities surrounding this year’s Bouchercon, I was extremely pleased to hear that Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas…

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…