Full Feature on the Ethics and Craft of Crime Writing

Posted by Cincinnati Review | Aug 30, 2022 | Samples | 0

We are pleased to share the entire review feature from Issue 19.1 on the ethics and craft of crime writing, including the following pieces:

Destiny O. Birdsong on an episode of Fatal Attraction and portrayals of albinism
Tod Goldberg on Elmore Leonard’s rules for writing crime fiction, as evident in Out of Sight (Delacorte, 1996)
Frankie Y. Bailey’s craft essay on the importance of setting for crime fiction
Aimée Baker’s craft essay on the ethics of writing about crime in poetry and lyric nonfiction
Jenny Molberg on Lucia LoTempio’s Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James, 2020)

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