Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther and a Visit to the Mysterious Bookshop “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”—George Eliot, Middlemarch. When […]
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Interview with Craig Johnson
Interview with Craig Johnson, the Bestselling author of the Longmire series… TSM: What should those of us stuck in the Midwest know about the lure of Wyoming that attracts so many people? CJ: The lack thereof—people, I mean— Of course, Yellowstone, the Tetons, the Bighorn Mountains, the Black Hills, and the Red Desert are pretty […]
Lee Child and Jack Reacher: Creating the Perfect Hero
Lee Child and Jack Reacher: Creating the Perfect Hero REACHER SAID NOTHING: Lee Child and the Making of MAKE ME by Andy Martin Bantam, $25 (368 pp.) ISBN 978-1-101-96545-0 Review by Tim Baker How do you sit down and write a best-selling thriller from scratch in only eight months? And how do you do that […]