
On Writers and Writing 2012 Desk Diary
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Bruce Gold, a literature professor and Jewish man from Brooklyn, is offered a chance to become a high-ranking official in Washington. While trying to write a book about the Jewish experience, he becomes entangled in the absurd world of politics, confronti
Japanese student Josui Sakai and American lieutenant Allen Kennedy fall in love in post-war Kyoto. They marry in a Buddhist temple, but racism and family obstacles in America lead to tragedy.
A short, suspenseful crime novel full of witty dialogue and characters who speak like real people, not Hollywood gangsters. It's also the first major appearance of Raylan Givens (later the main character of the series Justified).
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison.
He was too embarrassed to even think about the shame he would experience if he were caught voyeurizing. Voyeurs usually watch women undress... What he felt, what tormented him, was like a terrible thirst that he had to quench.
According to critics, it is perhaps the best literary response to the events of the September 11th, and terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.