‘Zine Scene

New May editions of several crime fiction magazines (print and online) are out, with more scheduled for later in the month:

The latest print issue of Mystery Scene features Tom Nolan introducing the whimsical and entertaining world of Thursday Next, literary detective, in Jasper Fforde's bibliomystery series; Matt Zoller Seitz reviews the TV drama The Good Wife; Novelist Kelli Stanley chats with Oline Cogdill on everything from ancient Roman curse tablets to the second Sino-Japanese War to segregated 1970s Florida and even comics; Art Taylor talks with Louis Bayard about his acclaimed literary-themed thrillers, the latest of which, The School of  Night, focuses on a secret, possibly heretical, society of scientists and artists in Elizabethan England; And Williams F. Hirschman tracks down some of the top classic crime plays on Broadway and in regional theater.

  Suspense Magazine features interviews with features interviews with Michael Palmer, Daniel Palmer, Isaac Marion, Taylor Stevens, and Jacqueline Lepore; Tess Gerritsen and David Morrell discuss "Where is Publishing Headed?"; author Dr. D.P. Lyle takes you inside the coroner's office; and there's an exclusive first look at Sick by Brett Battles. Note, too, that on the magazine's blog, they just announced that they are becoming an all-digital blog and discontinuing the print versions.

Gumshoe Review Online's May edition has interviews with Brian Freeman (The Bone House) and Parnell Hall (The KenKen Killings) by Gayle Surrette & Joseph B. Hoyos. You'll also find the usual mix of book reviews, lists of releases and news items.

NoirJournal 40 for May has a detailed review of the Jack Starr novels by Max Allan Collins and their "tribute to the old-time funny papers and those who created them, costumed as murder mystery."