This promises to be a great event for readers and authors. I am on this panel in very good company. NOVEL IDEAS – MALE AUTHORS IN JOURNALISM AND FICTION Saturday, February 22 at 11:00 a.m. Pete Hamill: an...
Fiction is predictive. In my novel, The Trust, a Catholic charity launders money through a sex superstore. Total fiction from the depths of my imagination. Several months after The Trust was published, Connecticut authorities indicted a Catholic priest for cooking...
Write a protagonist of the opposite sex, that is. …today’s female novelists rarely take on a male voice, but when they do, their success rate seems noteworthy. This past year’s “it” book was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, in which the...
During the spring of 1980, I graduated from college on a Thursday afternoon and landed in Manila three days later. I spent the summer working for a bank, where I made great friends and developed a lasting affection for the Philippines. The country is comprised of...
Bernie Madoff confessed his Ponzi scheme on December 10, 2008. This Thursday, November 21, 2013, the Wall Street Journal is running my column, Five Years of Bernie. Mark your calendars. In the article, I list several lessons from Madoff’s fraud. Hopefully,...
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.
The New York Times describes my novels as “money porn,” “a red-hot franchise,” and “glittery thrillers about fiscal malfeasance.” Through fiction I explore the dark side of money and the motivations of those who have it, want more, and will steamroll anybody who gets in their way.