Writer's Block, Book Burnout and Podcasts
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...
Tag: Olen Steinhauer
The Cairo Affair by Olen Steinhauer
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...
On the Lisbon Disaster by Olen Steinhauer
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...
Olen Steinhauer on writing, inspiration and more
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...
This Is How You Fall by Keith Dixon
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...
Steinhauer on le Carre
"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...