Horn of Africa film option
I signed today, April 11, 2015, a film option with Stephen Altman and David Levy for my first novel, Horn of Africa., published in 1980. This novel has a long history in Hollywood (which I use as a generic term for the movie industry). It was optioned by Michael...New York Times Book Review
Take a look at my review of The Sympathizer, to run on the front page of the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, April 5. This is a novel well worth its price—and your time. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/books/review/the-sympathizer-by-viet-thanh-nguyen.html?_r=0
TUCSON EVENT II
Will be speaking on a panel at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend, and also appearing with other writers at an iconic Tucson venue, The Mountain Oyster Club. Link to interview with me by the University of Arizona...CAGE THE CHEETAH IV
Letter from Author’s United to all 10 board members of Amazon. http://authorsunited.net/. Writer or reader, READ IT!CAGE THE CHEETAH 3
NYT story: PLOT THICKENS AS 900 WRITERS BATTLE AMAZON: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/business/media/plot-thickens-as-900-writers-battle-amazon.html?emc=eta1&_r=0. I am among the 909 authors who signed the open letter, composed by Douglas Preston, asking his...CAGE THE CHEETAH 2
Here is another take on the Amazon cheetah’s pursuit of the wounded gazelle, Hachette. Much of what Wolff has to say is true, though I think his criticisms of traditional publishers is a little too harsh. The publishing industry has never been as...CAGE THE CHEETAH
Jeff Bezos has said that Amazon should go after vulnerable publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” It’s time to cage the cheetah.
THE LONGEST ROAD OUT IN PAPERBACK.
With the paperback of The Longest Road launched today (May 13), it seems a good time for a little reflection. I’ve been thinking a lot about two questions I put to the eighty-odd people I interviewed on the trip: “What holds a country as vast and diverse as the United...REVIVALS
The reissue of my 1996 crime novel, Equation for Evil, by Bourbon Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, comes out Tuesday, Feb.4. Please see my post of September 16, 2013, for a few more details. In the same vein, Lyons Press, a division of Globe-Pequot...
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