In January, Pegasus Books announced that it had paired with Otto Penzler (founder of The Mysterious Press) to launch a...
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Nick Kolakowski's work has appeared in The Washington Post, McSweeney's, Washington City Paper, Thuglit, North American Review, The Evergreen Review, and Rust & Moth, among other venues. He lives in New York City.
The new Netflix mini-series, “When They See Us,” is the best kind of grenade. Its four episodes, expertly directed and...
In order to talk about Jen Conley’s latest novel, “Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry”, it’s probably best to...
If you want to learn how to write devastatingly effective noir short stories, you need to read author who do...
The old-school pulp writers are all dead, but their creations’ shadows loom over the crime fiction genre. That’s the only...
Crafting the historical mystery is a more delicate operation than some readers may assume. If the past environs are rendered...
Nick Kolakowski takes a close look at graphic novel Tyler Cross: Angola by bestselling author Fabien Nury and illustrated by...
While perusing the web the other day, I stumbled upon the trailer for a new Netflix film, “The Highwaymen.” It...
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of serial killer literature. In the 1990s, such novels dominated the...
Nick Kolakowski takes a closer look at two mystery titles: The newly released The Liar’s Room by Simon Lelic and the...
