nonfiction
June 30, 2009
- This is not so much a literary story as it is one that I am still chuckling about. This past weekend my family and I were at a memorial service for a very dear friend that died suddenly of a heart attack on Memorial Day. While this was a sad time, there was also a lot of laughter and warmth as we remembered the wonderful person that Heather had been. Connecting with so many people and sharing ...
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June 28, 2009
- Political writing at its best highlights the unexpected changes in parts of our world that are hidden to us. That’s true of writing about the corridors of power in our own capital cities, but it’s even more of a factor for a writer like Adam Lebor whose work – fiction and nonfiction – has captured the dynamism and double-dealing of Central Europe, in particular. Because I live in the ...
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June 28, 2009
- This weekend I was the guest of Munther Fahmi, who runs the excellent bookshop at the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, for a reading from my newest Palestinian crime novel THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET. Munther and I have been scheming for some time to organize an event, so it was great to finally get it together.I knew it'd be an interesting crowd at the Colony, which manages to be something ...
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June 24, 2009
- Hello, all you writers and authors and artists from across the board. I recently read a great little book by Abigail Thomas, Thinking About Memoir, so I wanted to share my thoughts with you about this book and add it to my new Book Review blog category.By the way, my reviews aren't confined to the memoir genre. From the inception of my blog, which wasn't that long ago, one of my main purposes ...
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June 24, 2009
- From Atlanta: One of the joys of a book tour is seeing old friends along the way. In Atlanta -- which is always home to me -- I met more than a few. Then again, I almost didn't make it to Atlanta. Thunderstorms forced my plane from Toronto to divert to Charlotte. That meant the cancellation of my book talk at The Carter Center, breaking my heart. (Even worse, Air Canada wouldn't let us off the ...
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June 21, 2009
- The Budapest Protocol, by Adam Lebor(Reportage Press)Sometimes a journalist comes across something so powerful that it seems bigger than the project he’s researching. Usually it’s put aside to serve as the basis for a future project, a magazine article or another nonfiction book.Sometimes it takes such a grip on the writer’s imagination that there’s only one way to go. The novel. I know, ...
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June 18, 2009
- Last night I spoke at The Regency Whist Club, an elegant and historic place. A four-story brownstone at 15 East 67th Street, immaculately kept, and more than a century old, the Regency dates as a club to 1936, the Age of Culbertson. As members ate dinner, I spoke for about 30 minutes, telling the stories of the Bennetts and Culbertsons and about the days when bridge was all the rage. Earlier ...
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June 12, 2009
- Here's an interesting exercise that will tell you a lot about writing, though I will refrain from making some large and glaring pronouncement as implied in the headline to this post as the sample size is not nearly large enough to prove that point. However, this does show what it means to be a good story teller and writer and to be someone who merely is a good writer. Read the first 50 pages of ...
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June 10, 2009
- What’s happiness? A large income, Jane Austen said. Absolute ignorance, according to the delightfully morbid Grahame Greene. Or John Lennon’s less delightfully morbid warm gun. Whatever else it is, happiness is done to death. But where it is? That’s something new. The genius of Eric Weiner’s New York Times bestseller “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places ...
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June 7, 2009
