{"id":5235,"date":"2013-03-11T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2013-03-11T17:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:41:47","slug":"faith-morality-in-crime-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5235","title":{"rendered":"Faith, Morality in Crime Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Masciotra says you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/10\/where-s-the-faith-in-fiction-try-crime-novels.html\">faith in modern literature by reading crime novels<\/a>. &#8220;The case for faith in fiction is to be made by those who deal with cracking cases for a living\u2014the fictional detectives, private investigators, and troubled protagonists who inhabit the scandalous, seductive, and serpentine setting of noir.&#8221; Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316127353\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0316127353&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Hit Me by Lawrence Block<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316127353\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, for example. Mascoitra notes the main character&#8217;s  desire to kill for money and conviction when confronted by iconography. When the man must pass a crucifix in order to kill someone, he can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Mascoitra praises <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/James-Lee-Burke\/e\/B000AP7MME\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1363038067&#038;sr=1-2-ent&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Lee Burke<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> for weaving these spiritual questions and motives better than most crime authors. Burke wrote to him: &#8220;Most of my plots come from the Bible or Greek mythology. I believe in the unseen world and believe the cosmos is probably something like the Oversoul that Emerson wrote of. I believe the essential human drama is between the forces of good and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Masciotra says you can find faith in modern literature by reading crime novels. &#8220;The case for faith in fiction is to be made by those who deal with cracking cases for a living\u2014the fictional detectives, private investigators, and troubled protagonists who inhabit the scandalous, seductive, and serpentine setting of noir.&#8221; Take Hit Me by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faith, Morality in Crime Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-religion"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}