It's time for me to read Megan Abbott, since she writes about
a time period that interests me and also interests many of
you. It it from the Mystery Readers International site.
Here is one question and one answer from an interview of
Megan Abbott by Theresa Swegel. I picked this because it
mentions two of our regular contributors:
TS: On that note, who keeps you going? What's the last thing
you read/ heard/ watched that made you think/ listen up/
blink?
MA: I just read Richard Aleas's Songs of Innocence and it
knocked my socks off. The last 30 pages, I don't think I took
a breath. In many ways, it's a classic PI story, and you're
reading along, marveling at its skill, and then all the
sudden, at the end, there's this unexpected emotional wallop
that just floors you. And I have been reading a lot of the
white-hot Vicki Hendricks, including her latest, Cruel
Poetry, which is just great. Her characters jump off the
page. There's such momentum, the characters' drive to their
own dooms. Moviewise, I haven't been able to get David
Fincher's brilliant Zodiac out of my head. I really think
it's an instant classic. I can't remember seeing a movie so
insightful and penetrating about the powerful pull of
unsolved crime, of noir obsession and its awful spiral.
The entire interview can be read at this url:
http://www.mysteryreaders.org/athome.html
Hope you enjoy the interview.
Jack Bludis
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