If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful..

There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls..

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but fr….

The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, coll….

I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the ….

Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelli….

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymon….

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of….

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, b….

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you l….

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13..

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels..