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Casey Barrett

Casey Barrett is the author of the Duck Darley crime series. His debut, UNDER WATER, was nominated for a Shamus Award in 2018. He is a Canadian Olympic swimmer and is the co-founder of Imagine Swimming, New York City’s largest learn-to-swim school. He has won three Emmys and one Peabody award for his work on NBC’s broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Casey lives in Manhattan and the Catskill mountains of New York with his wife, daughter, and dog. Visit caseybarrettbooks.com

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Fiction

Tune In, Drop Out, Read Tao Lin

"No one writes like Tao Lin." — Tommy Orange, author of There There —∞— "Warm, funny, hearteningly nonconformist." — Melissa Broder, author of Milk Fed —∞— As I write this, I am on a couple prescribed pharmaceuticals and a cannabis-infused espresso bean. In the bag next to me, there is…
Casey Barrett
August 5, 2021
Miscellany

When a Pen Name Surpasses the Author’s

The curious case of John Banville versus his alter ego, Benjamin Black ... The man writes perfect sentences. Of this, it's difficult to dispute. There's a reason there is perennial chatter about him winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. That hasn't happened yet, but odds are he will win within the decade. …
Casey Barrett
January 13, 2021
Thrillers

“The Bright Lands” Harbor Dark Secrets About Missing Teen

Because comparisons to other A-list writers are often irresistible when describing a debut novel, here you go: It’s Bret Easton Ellis meets Stephen King, with setting by Buzz Bissinger.  When pitching John Fram’s The Bright Lands (Hanover Square Press), perhaps the author’s agent described it along those lines when it…
Casey Barrett
July 6, 2020
Thrillers

Tatiana Returns in Martin Cruz Smith’s Latest Arkady Renko Installment

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Siberian-Dilemma-Martin-Cruz-Smith.jpg I want to go to Siberia. Words I never thought I’d write. That is the power of a first-rate crime novel. It immerses you in its surroundings with visceral immediacy. It makes you want to see for yourself. Perhaps more than any other genre, crime fiction is often defined…
Casey Barrett
November 1, 2019