If you spend much time on the internet, you may have heard that mystery novelist and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein was officially canceled earlier this year, when Ava DuVernay's miniseries When They See Us exposed her role in the railroading of the Central Park Five. Last November, the crime writing community got a preview of this drama when the Mystery Writers of America honored Fairstein with the prestigious Grand Master Award, only to rescind it a few days later. (I played a small role in this controversy: I wrote an essay on Fairstein and the award for the Los Angeles Times after Attica Locke-who in addition to writing amazing crime novels wrote on When They See Us-took the MWA to task on Twitter.) This incident caused a bit of a reckoning in our corner of the world, showing the fault lines in our community.
We Need Noir—Because the Truth Is Dark, Messy, and Sometimes Ugly | CrimeReads
28 October 2019
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