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Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott has taught literature, writing, and film at New York University and the State University of New York at Oswego. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University in 2000, and in 2002 Palgrave Macmillan published her nonfiction study, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. She lives in New York City.

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Detroit News, September 17, 2009
...Acclaimed noir author and Detroit native Megan Abbott will take part in a reading and discussion of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Bernath Auditorium of the Wayne State University Undergraduate Library, with a...
Book Reporter, August 29, 2009
...If you have never read the work of Megan Abbott, do yourself a favor and get a copy of BURY ME DEEP right now. In this, just her fourth novel, she has already established herself as one of the...
MSNBC Newsweek, August 1, 2009
...judgment. Writers such as James Ellroy, Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, Donald Westlake, Walter Mosley, Laura Lippman, James Sallis, Megan Abbott, and George Pelecanos have managed to infuse crime novels with a quality of writing not seen since the days of...
Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 2009
...goal is to give readers a good time -- something he delivers in spades. 'BURY ME DEEP' By Megan Abbott Simon & Schuster, 240 pages, $15 Edgar Award-winning author Megan Abbott, one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime fiction, returns with another...
Calendar Live, July 11, 2009
...Brett Battles ('Shadow of Betrayal'), Gregg Hurwitz ('Trust No One'), Theresa Schwegel ('Last Known Address'), Megan Abbott ('Bury Me Deep') and David Morrell ('The Shimmer') will read and sign their books over the course of the afternoon. Visit...
New York Magazine, January 12, 2009
...non-stock femme fatale. This tiny Midwesterner of considerable steel is, Ardai says, loosely inspired by Queens-based noir novelist Megan Abbott, admired as ?the dark angel of the Zeitgeist,? says Irish author Bruen, for her ferocious fiction....
Bookslut, December 5, 2008
...picked up by Hard Case Crime (she is their first lady) and Simon & Shusters award winning lady Megan Abbott is perhaps the most prolific of all and her new novel Bury Me Deep will be published in 2009. I had the opportunity of picking their brains about...
Detectives Beyond Borders: A Forum for Internation, October 21, 2009
...genres outside my specialty of international crime fiction. In the past, this has led me to Scott Phillips, Megan Abbott, Christa Faust and, through Brian Lindenmuth, back to comics and graphic novels. In Indianapolis I met, mingled, dined, drank at the...
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, October 16, 2009
...new imprint, and any crime writers she currently edits (such as Ian Rankin, George Pelecanos, Denise Mina and Megan Abbott, whose next two books she recently acquired) will stay at her imprint. It's also my understanding that crime and thriller writers...
Jen's Book Thoughts, September 11, 2009
...can recall my alphabet today, I'll put them in alphabetical order by last name: Jeff Abbott @JeffAbbott Megan Abbott @meganeabbott Navada Barr @nevadabarr Rhys Bowen @Rhysbowen Alafair Burke @alafairburke Declan Burke @declanburke Chelsea Cain...
Crimedog One, September 3, 2009
...reading.  Just pulled in a nice haul of new paperbacks thanks to birthday cash--some Christopher Hitchens and Megan Abbott and Jack O'Connell and Nam Le and a dead guy named Stark . The garden was overrun with crickets and grasshoppers.  We had to...
First Offenders, September 2, 2009
...Cape Cod and I brought one book each week. Both were outstanding. First, I took BURY ME DEEP, Megan Abbott's incredibly fine noir novel to Paris. Marion Seeley has been left in Phoenix by her doctor husband, who has gone off to Mexico to help the sick and...
Rebecca's Pocket, August 10, 2009
...instead? Writers such as James Ellroy, Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, Donald Westlake, Walter Mosley, Laura Lippman, James Sallis, Megan Abbott, and George Pelecanos have managed to infuse crime novels with a quality of writing not seen since the days of...
Things I'd Rather Be Doing, July 6, 2009
...would be great to find a new writer who would grab me as Woodrell, Sallis, Bruen, Ellroy or Megan Abbott did, but so far... I particularly enjoyed the narrative presentation of the Bruen/Sallis section. What led you to take that tack after using the...
Me And My Big Mouth, June 10, 2009
...by are Citizen Vince (Jess Walter), the Mangel Trilogy (Charlie Williams), Remainder (Tom McCarthy), and Bury Me Deep (Megan Abbott). --- Lots of reading suggestions to check out there but before you do please visit the Concord Free Press website and...
First Offenders, June 2, 2009
...mind a little BSP, but I'm just so excited about this, I hope you'll indulge me. Megan Abbott and I wrote a treatment for a graphic novel, and we just sold it to DC! Here's the Publisher's Marketplace announcement: Megan Abbott and Alison Gaylin's...
First Offenders, May 5, 2009
...they're J. Carson Black's DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN and DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, Megan Abbott's evocative DIE A LITTLE, THE SONG IS YOU and BURY ME DEEP or those wonderfully hot ACDC titles that grace Lorelei James' book covers (DIRTY DEEDS for MISTRESS...
Lesa's Book Critiques, April 25, 2009
...the editor of this well-respected blog, but the contributors are all well-known names in the crime fiction field. Megan Abbott, Dick Adler, Ali Karim, Gary Phillips, and Linda L. Richards are just some of the writers who provide input. And, they need...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty, April 14, 2009
...has a sort of tongue-in-cheek hardboiled mystery I wrote after reading a lot of Linda L. Richards and Megan Abbott. Who knows what will happen to that? And people constantly inspire me. Right now, we're having a tough time and my old profession --...
Crime Fiction Dossier, January 6, 2009
...and Mail , but that's intentional because "favorite" is a tough concept for me, changing day to day. Megan Abbott - Bury Me Deep . Due out next year, her best yet in my estimation. Mark Billingham - In the Dark A tie between Ann Hood - Comfort and...
Crime Fiction Dossier, December 31, 2008
...King - We're All In This Together: A Novella and Stories Daniel Conway, agent at Writers House Megan Abbott - Queenpin Sean Chercover - Trigger City Charlie Houston - The Shotgun Rule...
Josephine Damian, December 28, 2008
...- Robert Fate The Blue Rose - Anthony Eglin The Ghosts of Belfast - Stuart Neville Queenpin - Megan Abbott The Moviegoer - Walker Percy To Each His Own - Leonardo Sciascia The Keep - Jennifer Egan Non-fiction: The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston,...
Crime Fiction Dossier, December 24, 2008
...became an evangelist for. It's going to be republished by Penguin. Ace Atkins , author of Wicked City Megan Abbott - Queenpin . A gritty poem with heart. I loved this book. Ross Macdonald - Instant Enemy . No wonder Eudora Welty thought the man was a...
{LIME TREE}, November 25, 2008
...BOOKS Megan Abbott, The Song Is You (Simon & Schuster, 2007) Megan Abbott, Queenpin (Simon & Schuster, 2007) mICHAEL aND & Maria Damon, eros/ion (ntamo, 2007) Beth Anderson, The Habitable World (Instance...