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Dwyer Murphy

Dwyer Murphy
Dwyer Murphy is the author of An Honest Living (Viking Books) and Editor-in-Chief of CrimeReads.


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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An exclusive first look at the new Netflix true crime documentary, Girl in the Picture

June 15, 2022  By Dwyer Murphy
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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
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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
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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
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Five things you should know about the ongoing investigation into Biggie Smalls’ murder.

June 13, 2019  By Dwyer Murphy
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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
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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
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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
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Can You Have Quidditch without Harry Potter?

How an Oddball Nerd Hobby Grew into a Semi-Professional Sport
June 26, 2017  By Dwyer Murphy
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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
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When Baseball Fantasy Crashes Into Reality

Where Are They Now: The Oakland A's 2002 Draft Class
April 6, 2017  By Dwyer Murphy
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The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

Dwyer Murphy Finds Blood, Guns, and Corpses at SleuthFest 2017
March 20, 2017  By Dwyer Murphy
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Donald Trump Has Made It Hard to Be a New England Patriots Fan

On Questioning the Reasons You Have for Loving a Sports Franchise
February 3, 2017  By Dwyer Murphy
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11 Memoirs by 20th-Century American Radicals

Muckracking Journalists, Antiwar Activists, and More
January 30, 2017  By Dwyer Murphy
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