Literary Thrillers: An Oxymoron? by Bonnie Kistler What’s in a name? Plenty, if we’re talking about the label assigned to a novel. It governs where the work is shelved in a bookstore or library or what algorithm an e-tailer uses to recommend it. It determines whether the novel’s readership is largely men or almost entirely […]
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Wastrels and Layabouts: Six Novels with Charming, Workshy Anti-heroes by Peter Mann
Wastrels and Layabouts: Six Novels with Charming, Workshy Anti-heroes by Peter Mann Writers are great shirkers, as everyone suspects and all writers know. Our patron saint is Bartleby of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, whose great refusal, “I would prefer not to,” is our battle cry against the world of workaday drudgery. For why work when […]
Exclusive Interview With Leslie Klinger
The Strand Magazine is a huge fan of Leslie Klinger, in this exclusive interview we got the opportunity to speak to one of the most notable authorities of the Sherlock Holmes novels. An expert of classic genre fiction, Leslie Klinger tells us all about his start in the world of the crime genre and his […]