In our Ideas Matter segment we take time just about every week to check in with the state humanities councils in our 7-state region.
Today we're discussing the long and colorful history of American crime writing. Our guest is HaroldSchecter, professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the editor of the Library of America's True Crime volume. A writer of true crime fiction himself, Harold recently served as the scholar-advisor for the New York Council's new Reading and Discussion series "True Crime an American Genre."