New key art

In preparation for an upcoming local television appearance (more on that soon), the host/producers asked that I provide some sort of backdrop image for use on the bare-bones set while I was on camera. I turned to my friend and colleague (and graphic design genius) Mark Voger for advice. He knocked it out of the park, conceiving, designing and executing the image above.

WHYY interview

I was recently a guest on the arts show THE SPARK, for the Philadelphia PBS affiliate WHYY, talking about crime fiction, influential books (including Dashiell Hammett's THE GLASS KEY) and more. My thanks to the producers, and to interviewer Marie DeNoia Aronsohn, who did a terrific job.