Excerpt from Henning Mankell’s Novel AFTER THE FIRE… (Translated by Marlaine Delargy) Chapter II I watched as one boat after another disappeared, the sounds of the different engines gradually dying away. I knew who each person was out here in the archipelago. There are two dominant families: the Hanssons and the Westerlunds. Many of them […]
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Robert Olen Butler on Writing
Robert Olen Butler on Writing AFG: Tell us how your experiences in the Vietnam War formed your writing? ROB: In 1969, I was caught up in the pre-lottery draft for the Vietnam War and wound up in the Army, first in military intelligence and then in Army language school learning Vietnamese. I studied the language for […]
On the Menu: A meal prepared by Flynn, Patterson, and Lippman
On the Menu: A delicious meal prepared by Flynn, Patterson, and Lippman Aunt Effie’s Salmon Ball by LAURA LIPPMAN My Aunt Effie—actually my great aunt—was a Capital-C Character, an old-fashioned steel magnolia with a hearty laugh and the first person who ever assured me I was funny. Also, maybe the last. Aunt Effie was the middle […]
Agatha Christie at Home
by Hilary Macaskill Mysterycenter has been granted the rights to share some photos from the book “Agatha Christie at Home” by Hilary Macaskill: Agatha Christie at her writing desk, which can be seen in the Drawing Room at Greenway Inner harbour of Brixham – Harbour View Hotel in the background was once the harbour master’s […]