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Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

In the introduction to the short story collection Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives that she edited, Sarah Weinman laments that "an entire generation of female crime writers...have faded from view." Many of these writers, popular and lauded in their day, have been forgotten over time. Weinman has selected stories by fourteen of them, ranging in publication date from … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

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July 1, 2016August 13, 2017Anthologies, Crime, Domestic suspense, Noir, Patricia Highsmith, Recommended Reading, Sarah Weinman, Shirley Jackson, Short stories, Suspense, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writersLeave a comment
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Reading journal: Ringing in 2016

This year, I've decided to post snippets from my ongoing reading journal that aren't full reviews, just thoughts about what I'm reading and what I want to read. This will possibly be terribly dull; I'll let you decide. Here's what I've been reading since the start of the year -- a lot of short books! … Continue reading Reading journal: Ringing in 2016

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January 10, 2016May 22, 20172016, amreading, Big books, Black Sun, Dashiell Hammett, deserts, Dorothy B Hughes, Edward Abbey, Noir, Paolo Bacigalupi, Reading, Short novels, Southwestern fiction, The End Is Now, The Expendable Man, The Maltese Falcon, The Water Knife, zombiesLeave a comment
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Recommended reading: The Expendable Man

This week I'm recommending The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes, a crime noir classic recently reissued by New York Review Books. A young doctor driving from California to a family wedding in Phoenix, Arizona, sees a teenage girl hitchhiking on a desert road and stops to pick her up, setting in motion a chain of events that … Continue reading Recommended reading: The Expendable Man

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January 9, 2016July 15, 2016Classics, Dorothy B Hughes, New York Review Books, Noir, The Expendable ManLeave a comment

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