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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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Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2010
...A History of the Early Republic 1789-1815" by Gordon S. Wood Mystery/Thriller " Bury Me Deep " by Megan Abbott "The Hidden Man" by David Ellis " Black Water Rising " by Attica Locke "A Darker Domain" by Val McDermid " The Ghosts of Belfast " by...
Detroit News, February 11, 2010
...Grosse Pointe's own Megan Abbott, the "crown princess of noir fiction" and author of such hard-boiled crime novels as "Bury Me Deep" and "Queenpin," is up for two prestigious literary awards. Last month...
Earthtimes.org, January 19, 2010
...HarperCollins) In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books) BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano (Akashic Books) The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio ?...
USA Weekend Magazine, January 4, 2010
...author Ken Bruen, and is also close with thriller writer Michelle Gagnon as well as Alison Gaylin and Megan Abbott, co-authors of the upcoming graphic novel Normandy Gold (also for Vertigo Crime). âItâs valuable to have a community of people with whom...
Miami Herald, December 29, 2009
...that makes the setting feel as if it is New York in the 1940s. 16. Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott. Simon & Schuster. In a fictional account of a real crime in 1931, Abbott delivers a dark story about a young woman's chilling obsession...
Detroit News, December 16, 2009
...is a real treat for jazz lovers and biography junkies alike. M.M.T. "Bury Me Deep" by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster, $13): Detroit native Abbott is one of the best neo-noir stylists operating today. The book is a fictionalized account of an infamous...
Queens Courier, December 9, 2009
...Megan Abbott finds nothing quite as intriguing as the truth. In her novel Queenpin, most recently nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award, the award-winning crime writer investigates history as though it...
Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2009
...Argentina, when Eva Per�n glittered brightly and Nazis hid in plain sight. That decade has also long been Megan Abbott's bailiwick, but for "Bury Me Deep" (Simon & Schuster: 240 pp., $15 paper) she travels back to 1931 Phoenix for a fictionalized...
Telegraph, November 30, 2009
...Jake Kerridge investigates a thrilling crop of crime novel including David Peace's Occupied City and Megan Abbott's The Song is You The achievements of the best crime fiction writers continue to astonish, but first a word of warning. Publishers are...
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...
BITTER WATER BLOG, January 7, 2010
...A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield Get Real by Donald E. Westlake Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott Gutted by Tony Black Hogdoggin' by Anthony Neil Smith Slammer by Allan Guthrie The Coldest Mile by Tom Piccirilli...
lying for a living, January 6, 2010
...out for their maturity, their daring, and the quality of their ideas and their prose. Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott The City and The City , China Miéville Finch, Jeff VanderMeer The Siege , Stephen White Anybody else?...
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, January 3, 2010
...reviews new crime fiction releases by Cathi Unsworth, Peter Temple and Frank Tallis for the Times of London. Megan Abbott talks with Robert Crais about his new Joe Pike novel, THE FIRST RULE, in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. BBC Radio 4 looks at the...
Limbo, January 1, 2010
...by Andrew Taylor (Hyperion) • Blood Money , by Tom Bradby (Bantam Press UK) • Bury Me Deep , by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) • If the Dead Rise Not , by Philip Kerr (Quercus UK) • The Dead of Winter , by Rennie Airth (Macmillan) • The...
The Place Where Jack Pendarvis has a "Blog", December 20, 2009
...chat about our favorite subjects, which include FANTASY ISLAND, Shields and Yarnell , MAD MEN , Claudia Cardinale (pictured), and Megan Abbott . But why haven't I read his books before? Well, I have read one now and I am very glad. I don't have to tell...
lying for a living, December 13, 2009
...to make the flight last longer so I wouldn’t have to interrupt my reading. Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott Payback, Margaret Atwood Cryptonomicon and Anathem , Neal Stephenson Finch, Jeff VanderMeer How about everybody else?...
film noir, November 18, 2009
...“Two men racing forward to collide like a knockout punch. A razor-edged story of revenge, redemption and what happens when you confront the ghosts of the past.” “ One Too Many Blows to the Head , feels like a long-lost pulp you find in a favorite...
Crime Always Pays, November 7, 2009
...do you read for guilty pleasures? Thomas McGuane, Charlie Huston, John Sandford, Michael Connelly, Ken Bruen, Denise Mina, Megan Abbott. I’d also list Cormac McCarthy, but his writing makes me feel too guilty. Most satisfying writing moment?...
Ténèbres à la lumière, November 6, 2009
...com/ Books And Authors I Like : Raymond Chandler, J.B. Kohl, Cornell Woolrich, Joe R. Lansdale, Eddie Muller, Megan Abbott, pretty much anything by Hard Case Crime, Jason Starr, Richard Powell, Scott Smith, Steve Brewer, Victor Gischler, Sara Gran,...
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...
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...
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...
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...