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 from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelli… - Megan Abbott
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
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
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
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…
If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful. - Megan Abbott
If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.
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
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…
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
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 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
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…
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. - Megan Abbott
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.
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
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…
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