Sock Grief: When Your Number’s Up

By Crime HQ

June 14, 2013

Futile self-recrimination via the amazing Nathan Bulmer's art blog, Eat More Bikes.

…Makes the medicine go down, according to Mary Poppins in the classic 1964 Disney film. She’s got a literal and figurative point in relation to both life and fiction (though she can keep the pigeons). In life, we often lean into laughter when we want to cry but fear we won’t stop if we start—in…

Here’s How I Pulled Off the Perfect Heist

By Sophie Wan

March 1, 2024

I’ve always loved how heist stories follow a particular formula but manage to delight me every time. I never thought that I would have the ability to write one myself until the idea for Women of Good Fortune grabbed onto me one day and wouldn’t let go. Suddenly, I had this intense desire to explore…

Book Review: No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

By Doreen Sheridan

January 9, 2023

Oh, the 1990s! A decade of excellent music, questionable fashion and–in this incisive fictionalization of the post-punk, quasi-grunge, anti-sellout scene rubbing shoulders with the moneyed in New York City–the origin of the fires that will fuel the earnest everyday heroes of our own more recent past in taking up the good fight against the seemingly…

Q&A: Alex Segura Talks to Hilary Davidson About His New Novel, Secret Identity

By Crime HQ

May 19, 2022

Hilary Davidson: Writers are often told to write what they know, and Secret Identity is set in the world of comic book publishing. That’s a world you know intimately, having worked for DC, Archie Comics, and now Oni Press. You’ve also written a number of comic books, including the superhero noir The Black Ghost. But…

Sock Grief: When Your Number’s Up

By Crime HQ

A Spoonful of Sugar…

By Alexia Casale

Here’s How I Pulled Off the Perfect Heist

By Sophie Wan

Book Review: No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

By Doreen Sheridan

Q&A: Alex Segura Talks to Hilary Davidson About His New Novel, Secret Identity

By Crime HQ