Five Prescient Political Thrillers At 4 a.m. on a very cold morning in December 1973, I was in my car on Macarthur Boulevard in Washington sitting in a gas line. More precisely, I was the twenty-first car in the line waiting for an Exxon station to open at 5 a.m. so that I could fill […]
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Top Ten On the Run Stories
The road tale is one of the oldest genres of stories there are, going at least as far back as The Odyssey. But there’s a subset that we might as well call the On the Run story, featuring outlaws not just on a journey but running for their lives, that created some of the most […]
The Long Shadow of Raymond Chandler…
The Long Shadow of Raymond Chandler… Raymond Chandler changed my life. I was assigned to read The Long Goodbye for class, and although only five chapters were assigned, I devoured the whole book in one night. As a young writer, I wasn’t sure what sort of stories I wanted to write, but Chandler’s prose, […]