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Olivia Rutigliano
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Writer | Editor at Lit Hub & CrimeReads || PhD from Columbia in 19th-early 20th c literature & entertainment | Other work in Vanity Fair, Lapham's Quarterly, Vulture, the Baffler, LARB, BWDR, etc. | Repped by Chris Calhoun | she/her
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I loved Guillermo del Toro’s new FRANKENSTEIN adaptation. lithub.com/guillermo-de...
Guillermo del Toro’s New Frankenstein Adaptation is Life-Giving
One of the most recognizable words in our modern culture is “Frankenstein.” But in Guillermo del Toro’s magnificent new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, another name…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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“Del Toro loves monsters—misunderstood, sympathetic monsters—and Shelley’s Creature is the primogenitor of this tradition.” @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social praises Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein.
Guillermo del Toro’s New Frankenstein Adaptation is Life-Giving
One of the most recognizable words in our modern culture is “Frankenstein.” But in Guillermo del Toro’s magnificent new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, another name…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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NEWS!!!!! My new @literaryhub.bsky.social podcast, CULTURE SCHLOCK, is launching next Friday, October 3rd, 2025 at Lit Hub Radio! Listen to an excerpt on the Lit Hub Pod HERE:
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September 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I need to re-watch The Natural, since it's been a while.
As many time as I have, though, I confess my failure to see the parallels with Homer's Odyssey and so many other classics.

#RIPRobertRedford

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September 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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For @crimereads.bsky.social, I ranked the in-flight (crime) entertainment on my nine-hour international flight to Greece.
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The 20 In-Flight Crime Movie Options on This Airplane, Ranked
I’m on an airplane right now, about to go on vacation. Well, actually, I assume by the time this article is published, I’ll either be on or have returned from vacation. But at the time of the compo…
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May 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Our editor Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social), recovering from a bad concussion, rounds up some of cinema's greatest blows to the head. crimereads.com/eight-terrib...
Eight Terrible Head Injuries in Crime Film
Two weeks ago, I sustained two back-to-back concussions to the frontal lobe of my brain. I took off from work to convalesce, but I don’t have much to say about that. This is is because I was …
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May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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According to Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more than any other literary character. @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social ranks the 100 best, worst, & strangest screen portrayals of the great detective for @crimereads.bsky.social
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The 100 Best, Worst, and Strangest Sherlock Holmes Portrayals of All-Time, Ranked
We’re ranking Sherlock Holmes performances. One hundred of them. Not Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but the representations within them of Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, you might think that you…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Looking for some good new TV to watch, this holiday weekend? Our editor @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social has you covered. crimereads.com/new-crime-se...
New Crime Series to Stream During This Holiday Weekend
We did it! We made it to the long weekend! And not just any long weekend, but Memorial Day weekend, AKA the unofficial start of SUMMERTIME! Now, you can spend this on the beach or at the park&#8230…
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May 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social) makes a bold assertion about who should play James Bond next. crimereads.com/heres-who-sh...
Here’s who should play James Bond Next
May I have your attention, please. I have a proposition for you. It has been four years since we had an installment of the James Bond franchise. And not only that, good people. Since the contradict…
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May 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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The Red Circle of Washington DC recently had the honor of hearing from @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social of @crimereads.bsky.social fame. Olivia spoke about Dickens, magic, detection, and his love of performing. You can watch the recording now - enjoy !!!

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On Charles Dickens's Magician-Detectives
YouTube video by The Sherlock Channel
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May 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“The nominal villain of the film is the person behind these drops, but the film allows surveillance to be the real villain.” @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social reviews Drop.
Drop is a Rom-Com Psychological Thriller for Our Surveillance Age
I always think about a particular scene from Her, Spike Jonze’s somewhat-prescient tech romance from 2013. Our protagonist Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) has fallen in love with his new S…
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April 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social) rounds up the best bank robbery disguises in movies: crimereads.com/best-bank-ro...
Best Bank Robbery Masks in Crime Movies
Robbing a bank is bad. It’s bad. Don’t do it. But I won’t deny that the movies make it look kind of cool. Well, not the robbery part, but the part where the robbers storm into the…
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March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social and John Buffalo Mailer make a menu fit for a spy: crimereads.com/which-kind-o...
Which Kind of Martini is Each James Bond?
Here at CrimeReads, we ask the important questions. It’s how we’re trained. This weekend, I rewatched The Living Daylights and was struck (yet again) by the singularity of Timothy Dalto…
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March 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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“’Lethal Weapon 2’ is both a doubling-down on a few chosen dynamics from the first film that worked well, and a knowing expansion of those dynamics into something new, without trying too hard or going too far.” crimereads.com/chekhovs-nai...
Chekhov’s Nail Gun: Lethal Weapon 2 and the Calibration of Expectations
Lethal Weapon is fine! It’s good! But it could be so much more. There’s a lot going on in the movie and some of it’s too much and some of it’s not enough. But its nucleus is…
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March 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Gary Larson's legendary cartoon contains a perfect conceit for a mystery. crimereads.com/a-whodunnit-...
A Whodunnit, according to The Far Side
Gary Larson’s The Far Side comic strip (if you can call it a strip… it was always single-panel) ran in syndication throughout American newspapers from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Olivia Rutigliano (@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social) on Season One of SEARCH PARTY: crimereads.com/on-season-on...
On Season One of Search Party
The protagonist of  Search Party, a ruminative yet rudderless young woman named Dory who jilts her staid hipster existence to try to solve the mystery of an acquaintance’s sudden disappearance, has…
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March 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The Red Circle of DC meets today, and our presenter is Olivia Rutigliano of @crimereads.bsky.social fame. And it’s a packed house of course as Olivia speaks about Charles Dickens and Conan Doyle.
March 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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In which @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social asks the important questions. crimereads.com/nora-ephron-...
What’s up with Nora Ephron and Serial Killers?
You’ve Got Mail is a many splendored thing: a fascinating, variegated film that braids together themes of hope and despair, friendship and heartbreak, love and hatred, preservation and destru…
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February 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Did you know that someone explodes in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House?

Yes, you read that right. Explodes.

Please allow Olivia Rutigliano @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social to explain.

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Let’s Talk About Spontaneous Combustion
Someone explodes in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. Yes, you read that right. Explodes. Allow me to explain. Within the enormous mass of events that together make up the multi-layered plot of …
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February 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Agents, authors! @groveatlantic.bsky.social has just officially launched its Crime Imprint: @atlanticcrime.bsky.social! I am one of the editors & I am eagerly soliciting projects! Looking for clever, creative mysteries, thrillers, noirs, & nonfiction. Send materials to ORutigliano@groveatlantic.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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@oliviarutigliano.bsky.social examines the memorable "coin toss" scene 🪙 from the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men
(a good opportunity to see the sinister Anton Chigurh/Javier Bardem in action again)
#film #CoenBrothers #memorablescenes
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Scene of the Crime: “The Coin Toss” from No Country for Old Men
Welcome to “Scene of the Crime,” a recurring column in which we examine single memorable scenes from crime movies. Scene: “The Coin Toss” Film: No Country for Old Men Of all the million…
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February 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Been cooking this idea up since last fall and I'm so thrilled that it's finally getting off the ground — honestly we could probably fill a whole show with this (............😉) but for now, I'm thrilled to have @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social regularly dropping into the LHP!!
January 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I'm thrilled to announce my new recurring segment on the Lit Hub Podcast! It's called "Culture Schlock," and it's a twice-monthly audio column (for now...) At @literaryhub.bsky.social and produced by the great @drewsof.bsky.social.
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This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: On the Power of Mutual Aid
A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Br…
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January 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I'm psyched to see NOSFERATU this weekend and have reread DRACULA and 'SALEM'S LOT in preparation. This piece by @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social has also helped! crimereads.com/nosferatu/
What does it mean to remake Nosferatu instead of simply Dracula?
Dracula is back. Dracula hasn’t been away for very long (last year saw two reinterpretations: the corny comic misfire Renfield and genuinely innovative horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter), …
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January 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM