This book is old school noir written with a contemporary sensibility: all the trappings are there in the lingo and the characters' costumings, but this is some excellently violent shit right here. but greg borrowed this from the library, and i really wanted to read it, so i borrowed it from him and here we are. Megan freaking abbott - i knew i wanted to read you for a reason! and before you ask - noooo this is most definitely not YA, despite my vow to only read YA until the paper is due. She is currently developing two of her novels, Dare Me and The Fever, for television. She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has taught at NYU, SUNY and the New School University and has served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at The University of Mississippi. in English and American literature from New York University. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books.īorn in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. She was also a staff writer on HBO's THE DEUCE. Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Queenpin, The Song Is You, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, The Fever, You Will Know Me and Give Me Your Hand.Ībbott is co-showrunner, writer and executive producer of DARE ME, the TV show adapated from her novel.
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