His name isn't among the elite authors of the crime/thriller genre. The likes of James Patterson, Harlen Coben, Patricia Cornwell, Karin Slaughter, Jeffrey Deaver, Jonathan Kellerman, Sandra Brown and Stuart Woods have seemingly cornered the market in terms of attention in the minds of readers.
I've long held that the power of good writing trumps all other considerations. Is it by chance that sacred ancient texts, from the Pentateuch to the Gospels, the Tao Te Ching to the Bhagavad-Gita, are without exception great literature?
Those of us who traffic in words for a living feel somewhat under siege these days, like a Donkey Kong machine sitting forlornly in the corner of a ramshackle pizza parlor while teenagers on the sidewalk outside play Grand Theft Auto on their handhelds.
NEW YORK — No one likes fat girls. Stephanie Klein had that statement imprinted on her brain from an early age, the unskinny adolescent daughter of a skinny mother with her own image problems and a father whose notions of 'helping' were a bit too bounded by convention.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Reports that CBS News will replace evening news anchor Katie Couric after the presidential election or the inauguration are not true, division chief Sean McManus re-re-reiterated Friday.
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