15 June 2012 0 Comments

My Caravaggio Songs: The Music of ‘A Name in Blood’

Art ought to inspire us at least to try to work in all the media to which we have access. I’m a writer. But I love to make music, which is partially why I wrote about the mystery of the great composer’s death in Mozart’s Last Aria. Writing that novel took me deeper inside some [...]

5 May 2012 0 Comments

Podcast: The Music of Crime Fiction

The only thing as evocative as a good noir crime novel is music. So, I thought, how about making an album of music about crime fiction? That’s what I’ve done and I unveil it here. The project’s called Poisonville, after the mispronounced location of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel “Red Harvest.” (The place was really called [...]

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