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• Researching the novel

  November 19, 2009

  • Novelists aren’t journalists. Research for a novel isn’t the same as researching a journalistic article.I’d have thought that was too obvious to need stating. But then I became a published novelist, and I realized that people thought the two things were rather the same.I was a journalist for almost 20 years before my first novel was published. THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM is a crime novel ...
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• Less about suicide bombers, more about suicides

  November 18, 2009

  • Michael Anthony is the author of MASS CASUALTIES: A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq (Adams Media, October 2009). His book is drawn from his personal journals during the first year he spent serving in Iraq. You can read my interview with him <a ...
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• Is Abbas really ready to quit this time?

  November 13, 2009

  • Worn out has-been or drama queen? Interpretations of the Palestinian president's threat to quit vary greatly. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostJERUSALEM — Sometimes a quitter really does quit for good. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, announced last week that he wouldn’t run for re-election in the proposed January elections. Back when he was Yasser Arafat’s deputy in the ...
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