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2009 West Virginia Book Festival

Program Description:

Lipstick and Bourbon

Saturday, October 10, 10 a.m., WV 104

Edgar-winning author Megan Abbott will discuss the influence of the glamorous world of 1940s and 50s film noir (e.g., movies like The Big Sleep and Out of the Past) on her crime novels, including her latest, Bury Me Deep, which is based on an infamous real-life murder mystery from the early 1930s.

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Speaker: Megan Abbott

portrait:  Megan Abbott