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May.05.2013
Harper’s Magazine/April 2013
Once more, mag week rears its journalistic head:
One thing that keeps the better magazines in business is digging into a given subject hard enough and long enough to separate spin from what’s intended, i.e., image from the deeper roots of truth. This issue of...
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Mar.20.2013
The comment is made in many different places that the internet is a boon for short fiction. Whereas in the real publishing world, short stories usually share the same kiss of death as poetry, on-line is a different matter. This is not just because of 'self-publishing,' but because the market place...
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Dec.08.2012
It’s a green time for the espionage genre (at least to me: I read more spy novels these days than I do the other genres.) Another James Bond film romps across screens to friendly applause on that venerable figure’s 50th cinematic anniversary. TV and cable networks are streaming spy sagas on...
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May.27.2012
During my rant against the ubiquity of crap fiction in the world of e-books last week, I mentioned a “50 percent theory” that I recall encountering in The New Yorker awhile ago: that when we say we love an author’s books, what we really mean is that we love, say, around half of them.
This...
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May.19.2012
I guess I won’t be moving into that chateau on Lake Como next door to George Clooney anytime soon.
I mean, I’d sure love to have genre writer James Patterson’s money. But I doubt I’d enjoy having to keep up his fertility rate. When I think about his huge output, I hearken back to my early...
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Jan.07.2012
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - The Movie
The missus and I decided to forgo the gloom of a too-warm January Saturday and spend it munching nachos at the movies - in this case, a cinematic interpretation of this, John le Carré's 'seventies spy novel of the same name.
image via...
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Jan.02.2012
A major problem in this movie is one that all storytellers must deal with. There has to be in every story at least one character for whom the reader or viewer really cares. Someone has got to matter emotionally. Be it the hero or the villain or someone central in between, at least one major...
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Mar.30.2011
I luv luv luv John Le Carré, and have possibly read everything he has published. I incorporate the tiniest portion of his style in my thrillers, and one or two other novels. Homage I will pay. But - I gotta tell ya - I'd take a Booker if offered. In fact, I strive for it...
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Feb.26.2011
John le Carre donates archive to Bodleian Library
By Katherine Sellgren
The archive includes this image of Le Carre with Alec Guinness during filming of one of his works
The novelist John le Carre has donated his literary archive to Oxford University's Bodleian Library.
Le Carre, 79...
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Feb.18.2010
Some authors exude the pleasure of reading and writing (and, believe me, when you meet them, you’d be surprised how many just don’t.) J. Sydney Jones is such a man, with a breadth of writing experience in different genres that’s deeply impressive and carries with it an obvious love of his craft....
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