Below you’ll find a list of links to M. L. Rio’s recent writing, articles, and interviews.
- “10 Great Gothic Thrillers That Will Keep You Up at Night,” The New York Times
- “In conversation with M. L. Rio,” The Dark Academicals
- “M. L. Rio and Olivia Rutigliano talk novellas, graveyards, 80s music, and fungi,” CrimeReads
- Interview with Los Angeles Public Library
- Parnassus Presents: M. L. Rio with Rachel Randolph
- Flyleaf Presents: M. L. Rio with Daniel Wallace
- M. L. Rio on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour
- Left Bank Books Presents: M. L. Rio
- “All Academia Is Dark Academia,” Electric Lit
- “M. L. Rio’s Book Notes Playlist,” Largehearted Boy
- “I’ve Always Been Drawn to Group Stories: Guest Post by M. L. Rio” Barnes & Noble
- “The Specters of Insomnia in Graveyard Shift,” Chicago Review of Books
- “M. L. Rio on the Connection Between Writing and Dreams,” LitHub
- “The Horrors of a Stater Home,” Reactor
- “Book Review: Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio,” Culturefly
- “M. L. Rio – Graveyard Shift,” Beyond the Zero
- “How a Chapel Hill cemetery Stirred a Lifetime of Stories,” Garden & Gun
- “Seven Bedside-Table Books for When You Can’t Sleep,” The Atlantic
- “Jovenes, actores, y asesinos: el drama postmoderno,” Lee+
- “TVD Live: Matthew Sweet at the Madrid Theatre, 2/9,” The Vinyl District
- “Matthew Sweet, the TVD Interview,” The Vinyl District
- “Simon & Schuster Gets ‘Hot Wax,’” Publisher’s Weekly
- On the Write Track podcast interview
- “In These Hallowed Halls – Anthology Interview,” Fantasy Hive
- “A Roundtable Discussion on Dark Academia,” CrimeReads
- Discursions on Substack
- Reddit AMA, r/Books
- “TVD Live: The 50th anniversary of Big Star’s #1 Record at Union Stage, 12/7,” The Vinyl District
- “TVD Live: Suede and Manic Street Preachers at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 11/18,” The Vinyl District
- “Sex, Drugs, and Shakespeare: A Conversation with M. L. Rio,” Poptized
- “Suede’s Mat Osman, The TVD Interview,” The Vinyl District
- “If We Were Villains: Blink49 Studios and Sex Education Producer Eleven Team to Adapt M. L. Rio’s Thriller as Series,” Deadline
- “In Honor of Shakespeare,” Bookshop.org
- “Buffy Sainte-Marie, The TVD Interview,” The Vinyl District
- Reddit AMA, r/Books
- In conversation with Kate Weinberg, Murder by the Book
- PLP Fiction (But Not Just Fiction) interview, Dallas Public Library
- “Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner, The TVD Interview,” The Vinyl District
- The Cup interview, Cup of Hemlock Theatre
- “Suzi Quatro, The TVD Interview,” The Vinyl District
- “Sorry You’re Here: Beauty Pill’s Lost Record Sees the Light at Last,” The Vinyl District
- “In the Light: Lez Zeppelin’s metaphysical Physical Graffiti,” The Vinyl District
- “TVD Live: Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 11/26,” The Vinyl District
- “TVD Live: Hozier at the Anthem, 11/18,” The Vinyl District
- “TVD Live: An Intimate Evening with Ken Stringfellow and Friends,” The Vinyl District
- “Play It Loud: Rock Legends and Lost Opportunities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” The Vinyl District
- “Bernard Fowler, In-store with TVD at DC’s Som Records,” The Vinyl District
- “Come Hither, Actors / Mentality,” The Collation
- “Come Hither, Actors / Temporality,” The Collation
- “Come Hither, Actors / Textuality,” The Collation
- “We Shall Overcome (Someday?)” Superstition Review
- “Little Eureka Moments,” Superstition Review 20
- “In Search of the Lauras: Sara Taylor’s Literary Mystery Tour,” The Rational
- “Campus Novels Off the Beaten Path,” The Attic on Eighth
- Interview, The Attic on Eighth
- “A millennial Shakespearean with stories to tell,” Dallas Morning News
- Interview, Entertainment Focus
- “A night at Hamlet’s castle, followed by a debut novel,” Folger Shakespeare Library
- “Five Best Novels Inspired by Shakespeare,” Waterstones
- “A Novel is an Iceberg,” Writing.ie
- “My 10 Favorite Classic Novels,” Female First
- WPKN Second Saturday Magazine radio interview
- “A Villain’s Mind,” UNC General Alumni Review
- The Sweetest Debut, Flavorwire
- “Shakespeare: Man, Myth, or Legend?” Omnivoracious
- “Reading with… M. L. Rio,” Shelf Awareness
- “The Time I Spent the Night in Hamlet’s Castle,” Literary Hub
- “UNC graduate debuts new book about mystery and Shakespeare,” The Daily Tarheel
- “Crime and Theatre,” Criminal Element
- What Happens When Life Starts to Imitate Art?, Backstage magazine
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