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Dwyer Murphy is the Editor-in-Chief of CrimeReads.


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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The Last Bookbinder on the Lower East Side

An Ancient Trade, Alive on Henry Street
December 21, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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A Visit to the Shadowy World of Rare Book Theft

The Seedy Underbelly of Antiquarian Bookselling
December 1, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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The Harlem Bookstore Committed to Revolutionary Politics

Revolution Books' Mission to Build a Community of Defiance
November 30, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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In Search of the Radical Bookstores of Old San Franciso

Dwyer Murphy Follows in His Father's Footsteps
November 18, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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The New Literature of MMA

On the 21st Century Writing About a Very 21st Century Sport
November 11, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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Why You Should Hate Football (But Will Watch It Anyway)

12 Books to Explain a Nation's Obsessions
September 8, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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A Very Rare Book by One of America’s All-Time Great Athletes

Visiting Jim Thorpe's $10,000 History of the Olympics
August 5, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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A Neoliberal Trojan Horse: Dave Zirin on the Olympics

Dwyer Murphy talks Rio with the The Nation's Sports Editor
July 28, 2016  By Dwyer Murphy
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