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Writer's Block, Book Burnout and Podcasts

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

I periodically get in funks where nothing quite seems to "work" for me and I find myself reading three or four books at one time looking for something that will...

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The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Steinhauer use an ensemble cast, and his more literary style, to create a unique espionage thriller with current events and Eastern Europe's dark history as the...

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On the Lisbon Disaster by Olen Steinhauer

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Tension, bursts of action, complex attempts at the sorting of truth from lies and the inevitable resulting grays, questions about identity and the choices we ma...

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Olen Steinhauer on writing, inspiration and more

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

  One of my favorite authors, Olen Steinhauer, has a book coming out in 2014, The Cairo Affair, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. In the mean t...

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This Is How You Fall by Keith Dixon

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Dixon brings a literary sensibility to the story even as he uses these familiar structures and blends in the noir and heist elements. It is the elegance with w...

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Steinhauer on le Carre

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

"The spymaster-as-hero is gone, replaced by the whistle-blower, the outsider who retains enough of his heart to be appalled by the slaughter of strays. In Cairo...

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