Noir and Romance: A Marriage Made in Heaven or Hell? What defines noir fiction? The language is lyrical, evocative, brooding, and a touch philosophical. But what about the characters and plot? Which do you remember most when you think of your favorite noir fiction? Do you remember the plot? Take as a prime example Dashiell’s […]
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February Reads: Reviews of the Forgotten Girls and Nobody Walks
February Reads: Reviews of the Forgotten Girls and Nobody Walks With threats of more crippling blizzards still hovering on the horizon, what’s better than stockpiling a bit of extra reading material? For this month’s list, all the selections will not only transport you out of your snow-snarled surroundings but across multiple time zones. Here are […]
Why is Edgar Allan Poe so cool?
Edgar Allan Poe is less a man of mystery and more a man of mysteries—from the ones that fired from the tip of his pen to start-gun the detective genre to the ones surrounding his life that feed our fascination with him. What happened in those last days in Baltimore before his strange death? How […]