Category Archives: The Crime Scene

The Crime Scene: Music in Crime Fiction with Mel Melton and David Terrenoire

Host Eryk Pruitt chats with David Terrenoire (left) and Mel Melton (center)

Host Eryk Pruitt chats with David Terrenoire (left) and Mel Melton (center)

Durham author David Terrenoire (Beneath a Panamanian Moon) and zydeco blues musician Mel Melton (Papa Mojo and the Wicked Mojos) join Eryk Pruitt in the booth for “Music in Crime Fiction,” broadcast on December 14, 2015.
Among the topics discussed are music in crime fiction, the murder ballad, Christmas music and Christmas fiction.
Scheduled to appear was S.W. Lauden (Bad Citizen Corporation), but due to a technical difficulty on our end, this did not happen. We apologize to SW Lauden and are working to book him on a future date.

 

The Latest on Carolina Book Beat: The Crime Scene with S.A. Cosby, Howard Craft, and Danny Gardner

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Virginia author S.A. Cosby (Trotherhood of the BladeTHUGLIT), Durham author, poet, and playwright Howard Craft (Jade City Chronicles), and (via phone) Los Angeles author and actor Danny Gardner (A Negro and an Ofay: The Tales of Elliot Caprice) [broadcast 2015-11-09] — Host Eryk Pruitt with the second episode of The Crime Scene with guests Cosby, Craft, and Gardner, discussing the intersection of race and crime fiction.

In studio, left to right: Howard Craft, S.A. Cosby, and Eryk Pruitt

In studio, left to right: Howard Craft, S.A. Cosby, and Eryk Pruitt

Howard Craft: "Superman doesn't come to Brooklyn."

Howard Craft: “Superman doesn’t come to Brooklyn.”

The Latest on Carolina Book Beat: The Crime Scene with J. David Osborne, Ed Kurtz, Soledad Medrano, and Clayton Lindemuth

   

J. David Osborne (Black Gum published by his own Broken River Books), Ed Kurtz (The Forty-Two), Soledad Medrano, and Clayton Lindemuth (Cold Quiet Country) [broadcast 2015-10-12] — Host Eryk Pruitt with the second episode of The Crime Scene with guests Osborne, Kurtz, and Medrano (in studio) and Lindemuth (via phone). In this episode, they discuss the intersection of religion and crime fiction.

Left to right: Ed Kurtz, Soledad Medrano, J. David Osborne, and host Eryk Pruitt

Left to right: Ed Kurtz, Soledad Medrano, J. David Osborne, and host Eryk Pruitt

The Latest on Carolina Book Beat: The Crime Scene with David Terrenoire and Jedidiah Ayres

Beneath a Panamanian Moon 

David Terrenoire (Beneath a Panamanian Moon, Minotaur Books) and Jedidiah Ayres (Peckerwood, Broken River Books) [broadcast 2015-09-28] — Host Eryk Pruitt launches new show The Crime Scene ahead of BoucherCon in Raleigh, October 8-11, 2015, and Noir at the Bar on Thursday, October 8 at Raleigh’s Common 414. Terrenoire (in studio) and Ayres (via phone from St. Louis) were the inaugural guests in this new show which looks to “expose literature’s underbelly” in its usual time slot of the second Monday of the month. In this episode, they discuss “The South” and crime fiction.

David Terrenoire (left) and Eryk Pruitt (right).

David Terrenoire (left) and Eryk Pruitt (right).