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Professor David Schmid has posted a link to an interview whose headline announces that "there's nothing crime fiction can't do." The statement came from Ian Rankin, who proceeds to offer some interesting thoughts on his evolution as a crime novelist...

Three years ago, I found myself in a shed in Campagnola Emilia, Italy, surrounded by dozens of cute nonni, confronted with a moment of meat-eating reckoning. I was on a study trip with the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where I was pursing a Master...

By tweeting this syndicated post, you can earn promotional tweets from me as part of the Amazon Tweet Exchange. Details here. Can bookstores survive in the era of ebooks and ecommerce? Cover links to Amazon.com Dramatic changes in the publishing industry...

The Best Adventure series of posts will list my favorite 21 adventure novels from each of the 20th Century’s first eight (socio-cultural) decades. Plus, I kicked off the series with a list of the Top 32 adventures from the 19th Century; in total...

In the annals of superior sleuthing, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's evergreen, Sherlock Holmes easily ranks among the all-time greats. Holmes' brilliant powers of deduction coupled with his loftier intellect and Doyle’s clever craftiness in concocting mind...