“Smoke”: New TV Series from Creator Dennis Lehane on Apple TV+
Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane has penned riveting, emotional tales over the past 30+ years, for page, small, and big screen – Mystic River, Shutter Island, The Wire, Mr. Mercedes, just to name a few. Often revolving around dark subject matter and themes of loneliness, centering on protagonists who represent society’s most marginalized, his stories […]
The Nuts and Bolts of Writing True Crime: An Interview with Black Bird’s Dennis Lehane
(Warning: Spoilers included) Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue was the genesis of detective fiction, which is also known as the ‘whodunit.’ His short story was published in 1841, with private detective Monsieur C. Auguste Lupin as the protagonist. Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction, which also includes legal thrillers, […]
