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

- Megan Abbott

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

- Megan Abbott

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…

- Megan Abbott

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

- Megan Abbott

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…

- Megan Abbott

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…

- Megan Abbott

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…

- Megan Abbott

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

- Megan Abbott

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…

- Megan Abbott