One review of Women Crime Writers (included below) hailed this website as “a substantial resource for both scholars and crime novel enthusiasts.” In that spirit, we present a curated list of coverage and commentary the anthology has garnered since its release in September 2015.
From The Library of America blog
Dolores Hitchens resurgence continues with four new e-books
Listen: Library of America makes rediscovered genre masterworks available in audio, digital formats
Forty books, four pen names, and one enigmatic author
Sarah Weinman: Women Crime Writers tells a new story about genre fiction
Interviews with Sarah Weinman
Poets of the Tabloid Murder (via PRX)
Reviews and Related Coverage
New York
Novelist Megan Abbott explores “Why Women Love to Read About Crime.”
The New Yorker
Michelle Dean profiles Vera Caspary, author of Laura.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
RTHK Radio 3
New York author Tracy Quan reports on Women Crime Writers and the related Film Forum series for
Hong Kong public radio. Listen (14:03):
Sarah Weinman is widely recognized as a leading authority on crime fiction. She is the editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, which the Los Angeles Review of Books called “simply one of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever.” She is the news editor for Publishers Marketplace, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the National Post, and The Washington Post, among other publications.