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Print/Web Articles and Interviews About Libby:

"Secrets of the Suburbs" - Chicago Reader, May, 2008

New Mystery Reader interview - May, 2008

Keith Raffel interviews Libby - April, 2008

Sarah Wisseman interviews Libby - March, 2008

Read a Q&A with Libby about Easy Innocence - February, 2008

Chicago Writers Association interview Summer, 2006

"Sweet Home Chicago" – PW BEA Show Daily, June, 2004

"Interview with Libby Fischer Hellmann" – Mystery One, Summer, 2003

"Sex, Lies, and Book Sales" – PW, April, 2003

"Interview with Libby Hellmann" – Mysterical-E, Autumn, 2002

 

By Libby:

"Ross Thomas/Briar Patch" – Mystery Muses: 100 Classics that Inspire Today's Writers, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press, 2006)

"24 Turns 5"CrimeSpree Magazine, Winter, 2006

"No Ordinary Bookclub"CrimeSpree Magazine, Winter, 2005

"Why I write Jewish"Mystery Readers Journal, Spring, 2004

"Writing Ugly" – The Mystery Morgue, Breakthrough Promotions, May, 2004

"My Story"Futures Magazine, December, 2003

"Doing it By the Book" – MyShelf.com, December, 2002

"An Eye For Mysteries" – Mystery Scene, November, 2002

 

Podcasts, Audio, Video:

Listen to Libby's Bleak House Books podcast - 2008

Criminal Masterminds interview with Vicki Delany - August, 2008

Chicago Blues Book Trailer

2007 Interview with Libby by WriteNow Coach Rochelle Melander

Listen to an audio interview of Libby conducted by Zoë Sharp (16 minutes) August, 2006

 

Libby's Posts From The Outfit Blog - Originally posted on The Outfit Collective

August 11, 2008: "Culture Clash"

July 25, 2008: "A Chicago Cop's Story"

July 9, 2008: "Let Me Count The Ways..."

June 6, 2008: "Aiders and Abettors"

May 20, 2008: "Apocalypse Now?"

May 4, 2008: "Fake News"

April 17, 2008: "Chandler and the Fairer Sex"

April 1, 2008: "Lessons From the Road... or the Adventures of Thelma and Louise"

March 15, 2008: "Chandler, 'One Book, One Chicago' and The Outfit"

February 28, 2008: "Guilty TV Pleasures"

February 13, 2008: "Prufrock and Me"

January 27, 2008: "White Collar Crime Fiction"

January 10, 2008: "Reading is Fundamental"

December 10, 2007: "Explanation or Excuse?"

November 27, 2007: "A Drew Peterson Reality Check"

November 6, 2007: "Gunfights, Interrogations, and More"

October 21, 2007: "Titles, Blackwater, and more"

September 26, 2007: "Violence: To Everything there is a Time?"

September 2, 2007: "A Pox Upon Your Newspeak"

August 17, 2007: "The Lighter Side of Crime"

July 31, 2007: "What is Evil?"

July 15, 2007: "Amy, We Hardly Knew Ye"

June 28, 2007: "Summer in 'Da City"

June 13, 2007: "Endings"

May 28, 2007: "Memorial Day—Chicago Style"

May 10, 2007: "Teachers"

April 23, 2007: "Vonnegut, Propaganda, and Fox"

April 9, 2007: "Not In My Neighborhood"

March 22, 2007: "Chicago Blues"

March 9, 2007: "Queen For A Day"

February 18, 2007: "Reading and Writing"

February 2, 2007: "The Grace Kelly Factor"

January 14, 2007: "24 Turns 6"

December 30, 2006: "Not Such a Vast Wasteland"

December 12, 2006: "Bad Cops, Women, and Chicago"

November 27, 2006: "Giving the Devil His Due"

November 9, 2006: "The 15 Minute Solution"

October 24, 2006: "Vote Early and Often"

October 7, 2006: "The Prodigal Wordsmith: Coming Back to Words"

September 21, 2006: "The Gun Range"

September 5, 2006: "Chicago Blues"

August 20, 2006: "Skype Me at Seven: The Future of Book Signings"

August 3, 2006: "Writers, Gods, and Atheists"

July 18, 2006: "Mayor Daley as Willie Stark?"

 

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