The Library of Congress Festival of the Book won't be held in person this year, but the online version will connect with audiences across the country for an interactive celebration of "American Ingenuity" for the festival’s 20th year, featuring new books by more than 120 of the nation’s most-renowned writers, poets and artists. The Fiction "stage" will include Colson Whitehead, Ishmael Beah, Sandra Cisneros, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Kate DiCamillo, John Grisham, Marlon James, James McBride, Mazaa Mengiste, Ann Patchett, Salman Rushdie, Emily St. John Mandel, Amy Tan, Téa Obreht, and Jeff VanderMeer. The Genre "stage" will feature Walter Mosley, Tomi Adeyemi, Leigh Bardugo, N.K. Jemisin, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Mary Robinette Kowal.
The Capital Crime festival is launching a monthly subscription service, to begin on September 1. Each month, subscribers will receive carefully curated books from the crime and thriller genre; access to exclusive online author interviews with the opportunity to submit your questions in advance; a back catalog of festival content and interviews; and also be among the first to hear about the latest news and competitions in the crime and thriller community.
Crime and Detective Stories (CADS), is an in-print magazine with an emphasis on "classic" crime that's published on an irregular basis about every five months. Articles in the latest issue include a look at the nonfiction work of H.R.F. Keating and the "Life and Work of Anthony Boucher." The publication considers itself on the "old-fashioned" side and doesn't have a website. But if you're interested in copies, you can contact editor/publisher, Geoff Bradley, at [email protected].
Berry Content Corporation, created by Mysti Berry in 2017 in order to create charity anthologies of short crime fiction to raise money for good causes, has released the anthology, Low Down Dirty Vote: Volume II, available in ebook and trade paperback formats. The book was created in the wake of BCC’s first release Lowdown Dirty Vote in 2018, which raised $5,000 for the ACLU. Volume II will again contribute 100% of its proceeds, this time to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Authors who contributed stories to the second anthology include Faye Snowden, Stephen Buehler, Sarah M. Chen, Bev Vincent, Gary Phillips, Travis Richardson, Tim O’Mara, and S.B. White. Bestselling literary author and lawyer Scott Turow provided the Foreword.
Writing for Criminal Element, Susanna Calkins wrote about the story of Chicago’s first policewoman, exemplifying how women, especially women of color, can be easily written out of history.
The New York Times compiled "The Essential Tana French" guide, if you want to brush up before her new novel arrives this fall.
The NYT also featured a "A Guide to Nordic Noir," for cold reads on hot summer days.
Think you're good at solving puzzles? In the middle of CIA headquarters sits a sculpture containing a secret code that has stumped top cryptologists for decades.
The latest crime poem at the 5-2 Weekly is "Heat" by Ankit Anand.
In the Q&A roundup, Cynthia Kuhn was interviewed by E. B. Davis for the Writers Who Kill blog, talking about The Study of Secrets, the fifth book in Kuhn's Lila Maclean Academic mystery series; Indie Crime Scene welcomed Phillip Jordan, whose first novel, Code of Silence, will debut this fall; and Crime Fiction Lover spoke with Australian screenwriter/author Gabriel Bergmoser about his first adult crime fiction title, The Hunted, a tense and bloody pursuit through wasteland in a place that could easily be called The Middle of Nowhere, Australia.
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