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Chuck Palahniuk

Better Living through Crime Fiction: “Novel” Alternatives to Popular Drugs

By Greg Levin

December 15, 2021

Mind-altering substances needn’t always come in the form of a pill, plant, capsule, tab, or tincture. Sometimes they come in the form of a crime novel. We’ve all read great mysteries, thrillers, and noir that created a prodigious shift in our perspective, mindset, or mood—even if only temporarily. Getting high on crime fiction is not…

15 Crime Novels as Funny as They Are Gritty

By Greg Levin

August 26, 2019

My love of both humor and illicit behavior started at a very young age, ignited by watching my two older brothers try to kill one another over the rights to whatever toy came in the box of Trix breakfast cereal my mother had just bought. Silly rabbit, bloodlust is for kids. As I grew up,…

Leather-Bound, Signed Copy of Fight Club

By Crime HQ

March 4, 2016

I am Jack’s utter lack of restraint. Don’t worry, the irony isn’t lost on me that a book about the things that you own owning you is now available as a collector’s edition signed by author Chuck Palahniuk himself. However, that being said, who wouldn’t want to adorn their bookshelf with this? If the first…

Movie Poster: Gone with the Wind

Not DRIVE’n to see the movie after reading the book

By Eric Beetner

July 30, 2011

The trailer for Drive, adapted from the novel by James Sallis, is out now and it got me thinking. I read Drive and liked it. The trailer looks great, the film even won best director at Cannes, which is rare for a crime drama in a non-Tarantino year. Yes, I may see the movie, but…

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