Setting the Modern Noir Scene in “Here in the Dark” – Chicago Review of Books

Setting the Modern Noir Scene in “Here in the Dark” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her debut novel, Here in the Dark, prize-winning culture reporter and theater critic for the New York Times Alexis Soloski crafts a psychological thriller around Vivian Parry, a Manhattan-based theater critic notorious for her acerbic reviews and her predilection for mixing sex, booze, and pills to quell the anxiety and grief she feels … Read more

Voting is Sexy: On Setting a Romance Novel Amidst the Suffrage Movement

Voting is Sexy: On Setting a Romance Novel Amidst the Suffrage Movement

[ad_1] Why did I choose to set my Victorian romance novel against the backdrop of the suffrage movement? I honestly didn’t see how I couldn’t include it. English Common Law decreed that until 1882, a woman’s legal rights were subsumed by her husband’s on her wedding day. The couple literally became “one person” under the … Read more