Alex Segura is a novelist and comic book writer. He is the author of the Miami crime novel Silent City, the first in a series featuring Pete Fernandez. Silent City and its sequel, Down the Darkest Street, will be out via Polis Books in 2016. He has also written a number of comic books, including the best-selling and critically acclaimed Archie Meets KISS storyline, the “Occupy Riverdale” story and the upcoming Archie Meets Ramones. A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife.
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Tuesday January 5
The PEN Ten with Sarah Weinman
“I’ve said often that crime fiction in particular is an excellent vehicle for social commentary, because so much of what happens in society has some tie, or root, to crime.”
Tuesday December 1
The PEN Ten with Lauren Beukes
“I joke that some people go to see psychologists, but I get my issues out on the page and make it my readers’ problem.”
Tuesday October 13
The PEN Ten with Kelly Braffet
“So many of the awful things I see in the real world seem at their heart to stem from a failure of empathy, from an unwillingness to see those around us as full-fledged people in their own right, with all of the flaws and mistakes and emotions and experiences that we have, ourselves.”