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THOUGHTS ON MY FAVORITE MOVIE
It’s “Casablanca,” which is not exactly a groundbreaking choice. “Casablanca” is a movie that shouldn’t work, but does, on just about every level, because of


THOUGHTS ON BASING BOOKS ON REAL EVENTS
Sometimes I wonder if I’ve ever had an original thought in my life. All my books have been inspired by real events, and my upcoming


THOUGHTS ON MICK HERRON v. JOHN LE CARRE
Mick Herron was a panelist and a featured guest at a couple of sessions I attended at the recently concluded Bouchercon mystery writers’ conference in


THOUGHTS ABOUT WRITING A SERIES, FROM SOMEONE WHO NEVER INTENDED TO WRITE ONE
I always swore I’d only write standalones. I wanted to craft wholly original stories that would end, dammit, and after I finished that story I’d


THOUGHTS ABOUT FICTION, LITERARY AND OTHERWISE
If you believe any number of critics, readers, pundits and scribes, the people who practice the craft in which I am now engaged (crime and


THOUGHTS ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOURNALISM AND FICTION
Now that I’ve retired from The New York Times, I can reveal that one of my favorite lines about the nature of journalism was uttered