Chris McGinley
@mcginley.bsky.social
Author: ONCE THESE HILLS and COAL BLACK.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
https://www.chris-mcginley.com/ Writer at Crimereads, Mystery Tribune, Reckon Review, etc.
About to commence the last in the Dreiser trilogy. Who’s a fan?
August 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
About to commence the last in the Dreiser trilogy. Who’s a fan?
Incredibly excited about this!
February 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Incredibly excited about this!
Excellent conversation with @browneallover.bsky.social !
February 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Excellent conversation with @browneallover.bsky.social !
Stoked about this event!
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Stoked about this event!
Schatzberg is king.
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Schatzberg is king.
Enormous thanks to Joseph Beth Booksellers for supporting my book. I found over 20 copies there, conspicuously placed in FICTION and LOCAL. I signed 'em all. Go getcha one! Much love, JB.
January 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Enormous thanks to Joseph Beth Booksellers for supporting my book. I found over 20 copies there, conspicuously placed in FICTION and LOCAL. I signed 'em all. Go getcha one! Much love, JB.
Delighted to attend @browneallover.bsky.social ’s
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
January 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Delighted to attend @browneallover.bsky.social ’s
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.
Intrigued by these two. Have read Adams’ EDUCATION OF H.A. , but not DEMOCRACY. Never read RH. Anyone have opinions?
December 12, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Intrigued by these two. Have read Adams’ EDUCATION OF H.A. , but not DEMOCRACY. Never read RH. Anyone have opinions?
So cool to be invited to Berea College and to speak at their Loyal Jones Appalachia Center about some “forgotten titles” of App. literature. Thanks especially to my host: novelist, press mate and friend, Rick Childers. @shotgunhoney.com
December 6, 2024 at 1:52 AM
So cool to be invited to Berea College and to speak at their Loyal Jones Appalachia Center about some “forgotten titles” of App. literature. Thanks especially to my host: novelist, press mate and friend, Rick Childers. @shotgunhoney.com
Loved this story of Florida pioneer life, equal parts potboiler and ode to the natural world . . . a place fast slipping away to development. (Cool edition with an annotated list of “cracker westerns” and other Florida literary confections.)
December 4, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Loved this story of Florida pioneer life, equal parts potboiler and ode to the natural world . . . a place fast slipping away to development. (Cool edition with an annotated list of “cracker westerns” and other Florida literary confections.)
Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.
December 3, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.
Attention Everyone: The Kirkus reviewer warns us that SOUTH END SYNDICATE: HOW I TOOK OVER THE GENOVESE SPRINGFIELD CREW, is “colorful if unedifying.” Too bad. It was my earnest desire to improve myself— to reach new moral heights—in reading mob boss Anthony Arillotta’s memoir.😂
December 2, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Attention Everyone: The Kirkus reviewer warns us that SOUTH END SYNDICATE: HOW I TOOK OVER THE GENOVESE SPRINGFIELD CREW, is “colorful if unedifying.” Too bad. It was my earnest desire to improve myself— to reach new moral heights—in reading mob boss Anthony Arillotta’s memoir.😂
Just revisited I. Lerner’s MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) which I first saw in college in a class called Gangster Film. (Not joking). Highly philosophical confection on life, work, money, morality. Not for everyone. Plot secondary to “higher laws,” as Thoreau would say. 😂
November 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Just revisited I. Lerner’s MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) which I first saw in college in a class called Gangster Film. (Not joking). Highly philosophical confection on life, work, money, morality. Not for everyone. Plot secondary to “higher laws,” as Thoreau would say. 😂
Time for a re-read. Who’s a fan?
November 30, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Time for a re-read. Who’s a fan?
Hey crime writers. Trust me when I say that you can learn all kindsa stuff about plotting your 21st century novel from this nineteenth-century woman. A study in creating tension. Just gettin' my breath back. Shew.
November 29, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Hey crime writers. Trust me when I say that you can learn all kindsa stuff about plotting your 21st century novel from this nineteenth-century woman. A study in creating tension. Just gettin' my breath back. Shew.
The stunning quasi-brutalist dorms at UMASS Amherst. (Arch. Hugh Stubbins, 1960s. Also a few Breuer bldgs on campus.)
November 27, 2024 at 11:47 PM
The stunning quasi-brutalist dorms at UMASS Amherst. (Arch. Hugh Stubbins, 1960s. Also a few Breuer bldgs on campus.)
SAY NOTHING, the HULU production, looks like yet another self-consciously quirky, satirical confection. Are you seriously telling me someone decided to make a laugh riot out of PRK’s dark investigative work about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville? Whose idea was this?
November 26, 2024 at 8:26 PM
SAY NOTHING, the HULU production, looks like yet another self-consciously quirky, satirical confection. Are you seriously telling me someone decided to make a laugh riot out of PRK’s dark investigative work about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville? Whose idea was this?
My favorite "moment of realization" scene.
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM
My favorite "moment of realization" scene.
Crazy interested in these two Florida books, one a novel about early immigrant settlers of the region, and the other a nature study in the spirit of Rachel Carson, I’m told. Who’s read?
November 25, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Crazy interested in these two Florida books, one a novel about early immigrant settlers of the region, and the other a nature study in the spirit of Rachel Carson, I’m told. Who’s read?
Loved GATOR COUNTRY, part true crime/intrepid reporter narrative and part nature study. Reading Braddon's Victorian novel now, and then on to an old fave from grad school, Trachtenberg's analysis of American gilded age society and the rise of the corporation.
November 25, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Loved GATOR COUNTRY, part true crime/intrepid reporter narrative and part nature study. Reading Braddon's Victorian novel now, and then on to an old fave from grad school, Trachtenberg's analysis of American gilded age society and the rise of the corporation.
CE, yes. But gets into a lotta detail. Just be forewarned. (I’m reading a short one in the wake of it!😂)
November 22, 2024 at 11:48 PM
CE, yes. But gets into a lotta detail. Just be forewarned. (I’m reading a short one in the wake of it!😂)
Just finished. Excellent stuff.
November 22, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Just finished. Excellent stuff.
