My debut in the TLS is a brief review of Jeannie Vanasco’s heart-wrenching Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl.
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My 2019 Top Ten List
We did a bunch of year-end lists at Crime Reads (I particularly did the psychological thrillers) but I thought maybe I’d do a more inclusive year-end list, which reflects what I actually read, These are in no particular order, though I’d make a special plea for Snyder’s book, which I don’t feel like it got the publicity it deserves: Continue reading
The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked
For a Sontag geek like me this was pure pleasure (at Lit Hub).
The Great Hipster Mystery: Defining a Canon
I am unduly proud of this.
The Dark and Dreamy Noir of The Great Gatsby
I wrote about my special relationship to Gatsby and its noir undertones at CrimeReads.
