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crime fiction

George Pelecanos

August 2, 2011

Author George Pelecanos talks to NPR’s Morning Edition about race, class and setting all his novels in Washington, DC: NPR MORNING EDITION: Taking On Crime In A Racially Divided D.C. George Pelecanos’ new novel The Cut is released later this month. (via Largehearted Boy)

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Richard Price Paperbacks | Henry Sene Yee

July 18, 2011

Columbine and A Wall in Palestine: cover designs by Henry Sene Yee Henry Sene Yee is a designer and art director at Picador USA. The very of his best work (and all of it is good) — his cover designs for Columbine by Dave Cullen and A Wall in Palestine by René Backmann to pick two recent [...]

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Les Diaboliques | A. O. Scott

July 12, 2011

New York Times film critic A.O. Scott turns his attention to the 1955 French thriller Les Diaboliques directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot: Les Diaboliques was based on the novel Celle qui n’était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac and before Clouzot bought the rights to the screenplay, Alfred Hitchcock was apparently [...]

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Henning Mankell | BBC World Book Club

July 4, 2011

Author Henning Mankell talks to Harriett Gilbert about Faceless Killers, the first novel featuring Inspector Kurt Wallander, for the BBC World Book Club: BBC WORLD BOOK CLUB: Henning Mankell

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Jo Nesbø | BBC World Book Club

April 8, 2011

With A.A. Knopf FINALLY publishing his novel The Snowman in the US this May, Norwegian author Jo Nesbø discusses his earlier Harry Hole novel The Redbreast with the BBC World Service Book Club: BBC WORLD BOOK CLUB: JO NESBØ

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