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»For novelists, a detective can serve as a roving eye, licensed to peer into the secrets of every social stratum, while a trial, with its pitched adversaries and high stakes, becomes a dramatic way to decide not only what happened but who, if anyone, is to blame.«
Laura Miller
Murder in Old New York: Laura Miller about the book Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins. Her review at salon.com.
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»Observers looked on in concern in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings last week, as Reddit and 4Chan fingered assorted innocent civilians as suspects. Many were reminded of 17th-century witch hunts and Richard Jewell. Me, I thought of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.«
Laura Miller
Writer Laura Miller with one question: Why do we all think we have the expertise to solve crimes after watching CSI? Her essay at Salon.
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Boston ‘terror’ blasts | Dennis Lehane: Proud, brokenhearted to be Bostonian tonight.
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»Nevertheless, Life After Life is far more than a game or a stunt; it’s rich in the gravity and texture of reality.«
Laura Miller
Writer and critic Laura Miller about the novel Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. Her review at Salon.
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»Questions about the accuracy of In Cold Blood, the seminal 1966 “nonfiction novel” by Truman Capote, are nothing new. (…) Two recent developments, however, shed a particularly troubling light on Capote’s account of the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan. «
Laura Miller
New evidence suggests Truman Capote‘s In Cold Blood covers up an investigator’s goof that might have let the murderers kill again. Laura Miller reports at Salon.
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Are the Ravens responsible for the fall of the house of Edgar Allan Poe? The city of Baltimore — and the Ravens — rely on their most famous writer’s legacy. A.N. Devers at Salon.
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»Sherlock Holmes was a virgin. Hercule Poirot was a prude. And, I don’t know Miss Marple all that well, but she was hardly Aphrodite. One thing is for sure: The great private detectives of the English whodunit weren’t doing it.«
Christopher Wallace
Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. Christopher Wallace asks what did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex? His view at Salon.
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News | Stephen King calls his work “possible accelerant” to killers. The horror writer publishes a lengthy essay on gun violence in America. By Daniel D’Addario at Salon.com.
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»This is why The Following, with its thinly veiled infatuation with omnipotent, amoral killers, has no right to invoke Poe. Beneath the gothic trappings of his verse and tales is the truth of human life, rather than a callow, sub-Nietzschean fantasy about casting off all moral restraints.«
Laura Miller
The horror of the The Following comes not just from the storytelling, but from the way it maligns the literary legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, Laura Miller says. Her comment on the TV Drama you can read at salon.com.
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»Tim Olyphant plays the character exactly the way I wrote him. I couldn’t believe it. He’s laid back and he’s quiet about everything but he says, if I have to pull my gun, then that’s a different story. And it works. There are very few actors that recite the lines exactly the way you hear them when you’re writing the book.«
Elmore Leonard
Crime writer and creator Elmore Leonard in conversation with Kristopher Jansma about the TV show Justified. Read more at salon.com.
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