iF Magazine gives an exclusive preview about a new TNT "light hearted thriller series" titled Leverage and starring Timothy Hutton "as an alcoholic ex-insurance investigator who decides to right wrongs, using a group of semi-reformed criminals."
USA Today reviews a new TV series titled The Inside starring Peter Coyote as Virgil "Web" Webster, head of an FBI unit that investigates serial crimes, including a young empathic profiler named Rebecca Locke (Rachel Nichols).
Netflix features a Movie Tip of the Day and for June 2nd they profiled the 1973 film The Long Goodbye by Robert Altman based on Chandler's novel, starring Elliott Gould in the "performance of his career" as private eye Philip Marlowe.
On author Christopher Moore's blog, he writes a thoughtful article about getting "Inside Crime Fiction Characters, and Inside Their Culture and Society." As an example of how to go about setting a novel in a different culture from your own, he holds up Philip Carl Salzman’s book Culture and Conflict in the Middle East as "a brilliant case study of how culture defines and shapes the concept of 'friends' and 'enemies'", adding that "those two categories are at the heart of much crime fiction."
Blogger and teacher Mark Wallace writes about "Little Known Greats in Contemporary Detective Fiction." He's not terribly positive, however, concluding that there "aren't many," and that he has a hard time "finding a contemporary book of detective fiction that has enough qualities of serious literature to be worth teaching." He invites comments, however, so feel free to chime in and prove him wrong.
And, Roger Silverwood, author of crime fiction for 37 years, gives his thoughts on his writing process in the blog Authors Online Workshop.
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