BIG HOT ROD HITS and SHUT DOWN: THE BEST OF THE HOT ROD HITS Back in the early 1960s, my friends and I were captives by Hot Rod Hits. My favorites were by The Beach Boys, but plenty of other groups filled the radio airwaves with songs about fast cars. If you watch any of the car TV commercials from the late 1950s and 1960s, you’ll see lovely models […]
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Mattea Kramer on Crafting Nested Tales and Capturing the Nature of Ordinary Villainy In 2017, I became fascinated by the notion that my hometown—Greenfield, Massachusetts, population 17,000—had joined a national lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies that got so many people hooked on pain pills. Greenfield was taking a stand, and suddenly I was writing a legal thriller inspired by the town. Or trying to. I dove into research. […]
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Murder, Mystery, and the Movement: 5 Reasons Why YA Thrillers Are Leading the Revolution There’s a war going on outside no teenager is safe from—and it’s not just in the streets. It’s in their pockets. It’s in their group chats. It’s on TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Discord, and whatever app got hot yesterday. The battle for attention is real, with the amounts of reels, and let’s be… real—books are losing. […]
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Len Deighton’s Spy Novels:  A Personal Selection Len Deighton published thirty-one novels over the same number of years, making him one of the most – if not the most – productive spy novelist of the twentieth century.  Equally remarkable, given the speed of his writing, several of his novels occupy the pantheon of the genre’s best works.  Tim Shipman, chief political commentator […]
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