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Monthly Archives: April 2011
“Rogue Island” wins the Edgar Award!
Over the years, I won my share of journalism awards, but nothing compared to walking across the stage at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan Thursday night and accepting the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for best first novel from … Continue reading
Steve Ulfelder’s Remarkably Strong Debut Crime Novel
Purgatory Chasm, a quarter-mile-long granite gorge in Sutton, Mass., was formed 14,000 years ago when dammed-up glacial melt suddenly broke free and tore a gash in the ice-age landscape. Today, it’s a favorite of weekend hikers and picnickers. I took … Continue reading
My Anthony Award Ballot For Best Crime Novel
I just sent in my Anthony Award ballot for the best crime novel of 2010. You can see my choices below. (Since I’m a potential nominee for best FIRST novel, I’m not revealing my list of candidates for that one.) … Continue reading
Say hello to Rondo!
The DeSilva family — me, my poet-wife Patricia Smith, our teenage daughter Mikaila, and our Bernese Moutain Dog named Brady — are proud to announce a new addition. Meet Rondo, a 3-month old mutt adopted from the wonderful folks at … Continue reading
Notorious: My Review of Buddy Cianci’s New Memoir
The last story I wrote for The Providence Journal before I left the paper was an investigation of massive mail-ballot fraud in one of Mayor Buddy Cianci’s reelection campaigns. Now Buddy (who has a brief walk-on in my crime novel, … Continue reading
Gregory McDonald, Creator of Fletch, Still Has Much to Teach Us About Reading and Writing
Gregory McDonald, author of the Fletch mystery novels, interviewed by Edgar Award-nominated author Bruce DeSilva Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, Burt Reynolds, crime novels, detective novels, edgar award, Fletch, Gregory McDonald, Jim Thompson, mysteries, Rogue Island, The Grifters, writing
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Keepers of the Second Throat
This speech, originally delivered to a national conference of English teachers, is one of the most inspiring things I have ever read. I’d say that even if it weren’t my wife, Patricia Smith, who wrote it. Please give it a look … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce DeSilva, English, Patricia Smith, poetry, rethinking schools, schools, teachers, writing
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