5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
FIVE MOVIES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE By Timothy Hallinan I read at least twenty books, possibly thirty, for every movie I see. Books change my life virtually on a daily basis, usually in tiny increments—a glimpse of something I didn't know, a glimmering of moral...
The problem with creating a protagonist in a crime series and writing her in the first-person voice is that often readers – and my friends – confuse her traits with my own. Alex Cooper is a prosecutor in New York City – a job I held for thirty years – but unlike...
The Five Most Influential Movies People gravitate toward a favorite film for a variety of reasons – for a hearty laugh or needed escape – but there are always a few movies that are profoundly mesmerizing, ones that we keep coming back to time and again. As a writer...
THREE ALBUMS AND TWO BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE When I was in middle school I, like most people at that age, was “really in to” the same music all my friends were “really in to”: A lot of U2, a lot of REM, and a lot of late 80s DC-area punk rock, since this was...
