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Charles Salzberg


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Charles Salzberg is a novelist, a journalist, and an acclaimed writing instructor.

A celebrated and popular creative writing teacher, he has been a Visiting Professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer's Voice, and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a Founding Member. He is a consulting editor at the webzine Ducts.org and co-host, with Jonathan Kravetz, of the reading series, Trumpet Fiction, at KGB in New York City.
 


Genres: Mystery
 
Series
Henry Swann Mystery
   1. Swann's Last Song (2006)
   2. Swann Dives In (2012)
   3. Swann's Lake of Despair (2014)
   4. Swann's Way Out (2017)
   5. Swann's Down (2019)
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Novels
   Devil in the Hole (2013)
   Second Story Man (2017)
   Canary in the Coal Mine (2022)
   Man on the Run (2023)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   No Good Deed (2020)
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Books containing stories by Charles Salzberg
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Lawyers, Guns, and Money (2022)
Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon
edited by
Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor
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Writers Crushing COVID-19 (2020)
An Anthology for Writers Crushing COVID-19 Relief
edited by
Lawrence Kelter

Award nominations
2023 Shamus Award for Best Original PI Paperback (nominee) : Canary in the Coal Mine
2019 Shamus Award for Best Original PI Paperback (nominee) : Second Story Man
2009 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee) : Swann's Last Song


Charles Salzberg recommends
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Beneath Cruel Waters (2022)
Jon Bassoff
"Beneath Cruel Waters is a cleverly constructed morality tale that grabs hold violently in the first chapter and then gently guides us the rest of the way. In a style reminiscent of Raymond Carver, Jon Basoff is a master at creating a world that's both simple and complex, a world where most struggle to keep their heads above water, a world of long-buried family secrets that inevitably lead to tragedy."
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The Promise of the Pelican (2022)
Roy Hoffman
"Though a murder is at the center of this masterly novel, Roy Hoffman is most interested in writing about people; the best of us and the worst of us, how we feel, how we think, how we act, how we react in a crisis. In The Promise of the Pelican, Hoffman weaves an extraordinary tale of heartache and pain, of people desperately trying to connect, trying to make sense out of the senseless, ultimately asking whether true justice is possible in an imperfect world."
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Hard Times (2020)
Les Edgerton
"With Hard Times, Les Edgerton has accomplished what few writers can: He's created a time and a place, depression era Texas, and populated it with characters so real they explode off the page. In this heart-wrenching gem of a book, Edgerton once again proves his masterful touch creating characters on the margins of society, often forgotten, almost always dismissed. Hard Times has the heart and soul of a novel you'll want to read more than once."

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