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Salon.com November 26, 2002 Charles Taylor |
Kiss Miss Marple goodbye Scottish mystery author Val McDermid talks about the tough reality of life in today's Britain and why crime writers, not literary novelists, are the ones facing up to it.  |
Salon.com November 14, 2002 Charles Taylor |
The case of the confusing bookstore It takes the skills of a great detective to find the best mysteries among the new releases. Our critic offers his list of some recent gems.  |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Laura Miller |
The death of the Red-Hot Center From literary giants tapping out the Great American novel through multiculturalism, Kmart realism and the Brat Pack to Oprah and your book club: A short history of fiction after 1960.  |
Salon.com July 16, 2001 |
Summer reading Our critics spotlight the season's cheap (and not so cheap) thrills and single out a few bestselling stinkers (paging Jackie Collins!)...  |
Salon.com September 28, 1999 Sean Elder |
Elmore Leonard The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts. How successful have his books been on the big screen?  |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 Allen Barra |
The case for Raymond Chandler The creator of Philip Marlowe has been called an imitator and a hack, but he deserves his lonely, disillusioned corner in the American literary canon.  |
Salon.com August 16, 2001 Laura Miller |
Sentenced to death Is a snooty "sentence cult" sending the Great American Novel to hell in a pretentious purple handbasket?  |
Salon.com February 27, 2002 Dorman Shindler |
The outsider Dan Simmons, whose novels range from science fiction to thrillers, talks about the feebleness of today's "serious" fiction and what we can all learn from Tom Wolfe...  |
Wired January 18, 2008 Clive Thompson |
Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing If you want to read books that tackle profound philosophical questions, then the best -- and perhaps only -- place to turn these days is science fiction.  |
Geotimes January 2005 Sarah Andrews |
Science in Mainstream Media The public is hard to reach. They're busy, they come in all ages, and they have varying intellects, educational backgrounds and systems of belief. This writer can educate perhaps a quarter-million of them at the stroke of a pen.  |
Salon.com March 21, 2001 Jesse Berrett |
Sublime true crime From its early masterpieces to today's coldblooded chronicles, literature's most chilling genre reflects the fears and obsessions of its time.  |
Salon.com December 4, 2000 Laura Miller |
Older and better Critic David Kipen talks about the publishing industry's youth fetish and his list of 50 great authors over 50...  |
Salon.com June 12, 2000 Sallie Tisdale |
Spy girls The author of "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted" picks five novels about kick-ass secret-agent women.  |
Salon.com November 2, 2000 Lev Grossman |
Man, oh manifesto! A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling...  |
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Jonathan Franzen |
Chained The author of "The 27th City" picks five great American novels about slavery.  |
Smithsonian August 2007 Cate Lineberry |
On the Case Kathy Reichs, the forensic expert who helped inspire the TV show "Bones," talks about homicides, DNA and her latest novel.  |
Chemistry World December 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Editorial: Fiction failure Rare as it is for chemistry and its ideas to star in fiction, it's rarer still to find a story with a character who happens to be a chemist, but is also simply a well-rounded human being.  |
AskMen.com August 1, 2012 Poe & Hill |
Novel Mistakes Today, if you want to be an author, you have to ask yourself only one question: Do you have a story to tell? Here are some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls many first-time novelists encounter.  |
Chemistry World September 2008 Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible We are conditioned to look at anything scientific as though we were back at school anticipating an exam, even if we find it between the covers of a novel. In my novel The Sun and Moon Corrupted, I include equations and quotes from Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity  |
AskMen.com Kyle Darbyson |
Overlooked Locked-Room Mysteries Working the single-setting plot twist to death: Clue... Identity... The Shooting Party... Murder by Death... Green for Danger...  |
Reason December 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Tor's Worlds Without Death or Taxes When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction.  |