Jose Luis Torres II on City of Honor

INTERVIEW: “Most Latinos are portrayed as gang members, rapists, drug dealers, or criminals. I wanted to develop a story that featured a Latino hero that the audience could believe in and champion for….”

“Into a Collaboration: Lawrence Block Discusses Completing Cornell Woolrich’s Into the Night” by Brian Greene

INTERVIEW: “It’s hard to discern where Woolrich left off and Block took over. Credit Block for his ability to seamlessly provide that continuity in the text….”

“Preview: It Lives! Andrew Repasky McElhinney on A Chronicle of Corpses” by William Blick

PREVIEW: “Aren’t all genre films structuralist in nature? Isn’t everyone either obeying or disobeying genre conventions?”

“Talking Angel Dare: Christa Faust on The Get Off” by Brian Greene

INTERVIEW: “What I really wanted to do within the arc of these three books was to invite the reader to question why certain characteristics and actions are considered gendered in the first place….”

“Destined to Remember: Anthony Giacchino on The True Crimes of Black Hand New York Podcast” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “I think that there is an untold story about immigration in the country. When you hear about immigration, it is used politically…. It is more that there has always been a history of tension when groups of new people come to this country….”

“The Kitchen-Sink Crime Drama: William Boyle on Saint of the Narrows Street” by WIlliam Blick

INTERVIEW: “I call it ‘kitchen sink crime drama.’ I was influenced by the realism of the 1950s and 1960s…novels, plays, and movies like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, and Look Back in Anger. They are all a big influence on this work….”

“From Sun to Sun and ‘Biblical Noir’: An Interview with Kenneth Wishnia” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “One of my favorite types of ‘noir’ is the more “hopeful” one…’one more job and I am getting out’….The other type which is more relevant today is that there are ‘noble projects’ that are doomed from the beginning because of how things have been set up….”

“Hollywood Confidential: An Interview with Dan Bronson on Shout at the Devil” by Stephen Galloway

INTERVIEW: “Hollywood embodies the title of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s worst novels: it’s beautiful and it’s damned.”

“African Noir and Societal Critique: An Interview with Kwei Quartey” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “In The Whitewashed Tombs, I aimed to voice and humanize the struggles and resilience of the LGBTQ+ community in Ghana and much of Africa, where some 32 countries have anti-LGBTQ laws, some with the death penalty as punishment…. But, more widely, it’s stunning and tragic that anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is so prevalent over much of the globe….”

“Hollywood Seamy: Scott Phillips on The Devil Raises His Own” by William Blick

INTERVIEW: “I write for an imaginary reader who is exactly like me in taste and temperament. When I started doing that instead of writing for an imaginary marketplace, that’s when I started getting a little success.”