5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts
Plus a Few More Where the Only Mystery is Who’s Sleeping With Whom
June 24, 2025
By Dwyer Murphy
1
Home Articles posted by Dwyer Murphy
Dwyer Murphy
Megan Abbott on Criminal Conspiracies in the Fallen Suburbs
In Abbott's new thriller, three sisters in Grosse Pointe get drawn into an 'investment club.'
June 6, 2025
By Dwyer Murphy
Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)
“I needed to know about houses—big and rambling houses, and how they alter people.”
May 16, 2025
By Dwyer Murphy
Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy
The Author of Crook Manifesto Discusses the Latest Installment of his Sweeping Crime History of New York City.
July 19, 2023
By Dwyer Murphy
New England Noir: A Brief, Idiosyncratic History of a Literary Region
Dwyer Murphy Recommends Ten Modern Classics and Wonders, More Importantly: What's Your Dunkin’ Order?
July 11, 2023
By Dwyer Murphy
Jon Michaud on Bar Literature, Washington Heights, and the Ideal New York City Saloon
A Conversation with the Author of Last Call at Coogan's
June 7, 2023
By Dwyer Murphy
Dwyer Murphy on How to Write About a City
“You’re going to want to get out and walk around.”
August 5, 2022
By Dwyer Murphy
The Search for the Funniest Crime Novel Ever Written
Dwyer Murphy on Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, and Patricia Highsmith (wait, Highsmith...?)
July 25, 2022
By Dwyer Murphy
Ron Shelton on Making Bull Durham, Getting Threatened by Thomas Pynchon, and Why Baseball is the Most Literary Sport
Three Decades Later, the Writer and Director Looks Back at How It All Got Started
July 7, 2022
By Dwyer Murphy
Alexander Maksik on Writing About Post-Recession New York
Dwyer Murphy Talks to the Author of The Long Corner
May 20, 2022
By Dwyer Murphy
Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York
“I wanted to salute that moment of night and those nighthawks.”
September 14, 2021
By Dwyer Murphy
Jonathan Lee on the Man Who Built New York City… Only to Disappear Into It
Dwyer Murphy Talks to the Author of The Great Mistake About the Life and Times of Andrew Haswell Green
June 15, 2021
By Dwyer Murphy
Take a Literary World Tour Alongside Paul Manafort’s Dirty Money!
An Essential Book from Every Country Where Paul Manafort Allegedly Laundered His Money
October 30, 2017
By Dwyer Murphy
How One Authoritarian Regime Made Another One Look Good
On Taking a Knee, Unity, and a Rare PR Victory for the NFL
September 25, 2017
By Dwyer Murphy
OJ Simpson is One-Man Book Industry
Everyone Who Knows the Man Seems to Think They Have a Book in Them
July 28, 2017
By Dwyer Murphy
Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?
How an Oddball Nerd Hobby Grew into a Semi-Professional Sport
June 26, 2017
By Dwyer Murphy
At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)
Dwyer Murphy Goes Underground to Get the Story of Lawrence Ellsworth
June 1, 2017
By Dwyer Murphy
Page 1 of 2
