NPR has been busy with crime fiction coverage lately. For "In Character," the series exploring famous American fictional characters, NPR's Mike Shuster takes a look at the quintessential private eye, Philip Marlowe.
As part of NPR's On Point program, host Tom Ashbrook chats with Carl Hiaasen (Strip Tease, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip) about his new nonfiction book, The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport.
On Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviews Charles Ardai, founder of the founder of the pulp-fiction publishing company Hard Case Crime and an Edgar Award-winning author in his own right under the pen name of Richard Aleas (Little Girl Lost and Songs of Innocence).
The LA Times profiled the "four-headed directing collective" known as Big Fantastic who have delivered 230 episodes of an Internet TV series in less than two years. Their upcoming title is "Foreign Body," a medical thriller based on the book by Robin Cook, in which all all 50 two-minute episodes were shot in 24 days in Delhi and Malibu. The article adds that "high-volume nuance and relentless pacing are definitely two features of the series they've produced so far" which include "Prom Queen" and "Sam Has Seven Friends," both of which are basically sexy, soap-operatic murder-mysteries.
And HarperCollins formally announced their new in-house internet broadcast studio, which has been creating author videos from their offices for sales, marketing and promotional opportunities. Marisa Benedetto (formerly with the Wall Street Journal), runs the studio as executive producer. The company says their goal is to produce 500 videos a year.
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