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S.A. Cosby – All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby – All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby is building, brick by bloody brick, a place, as he describes it, that is at once “beautiful and brutal,” a landscape of sprawling fields and deep-rooted churches, where the long shadow of the past is not a memory but a malevolent and living thing.

July 14, 2025 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
Megan Abbott – El Dorado Drive

Megan Abbott – El Dorado Drive

In El Dorado Drive, Megan returns to the terrain that has become her calling card, places where social rituals are precise, femininity is choreographed, and beneath the polish lies a festering urgency.

June 24, 2025 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
What Crime Writers Can Learn from Jill Leovy’s Atlantic Essay

What Crime Writers Can Learn from Jill Leovy’s Atlantic Essay

Jill Levoy offers not only a critique of modern American policing but, inadvertently or not, a field manual for the conscientious crime writer.

May 15, 2025 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
Penn Jillette – Felony Juggler

Penn Jillette – Felony Juggler

With “Felony Juggler,” Penn Jillette offers up a second enticing story. The magic legend’s follow up to “Random” juggles autobiography with crime.

May 15, 2025 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
Let’s Dump “I Appreciate You”

Let’s Dump “I Appreciate You”

There’s a phrase creeping around modern speech like a well-moisturized spider of vague sincerity, and that phrase is: “I appreciate you.”

April 23, 2025 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
Why Aren’t More Kids Reading?

Why Aren’t More Kids Reading?

Why aren’t more kids reading? One observer says analytical reading seems to overshadow the organic enjoyment of storytelling.

November 17, 2023 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments
Your Big Book Fair Mistake

Your Big Book Fair Mistake

Do book fairs depress you? Here’s some advice from a marketing guy with over four decades of experience selling stuff. You’re doing it wrong.

August 14, 2022 Terry Shepherd 0 Comments

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