All Blog Posts Tagged 'fourth' (13)

The Decade that Dare not Speak its Name

In the documentary “Imagine,” John Lennon comments that his song “Starting Over” from "Double Fantasy" was a message to fans his own age in which he aimed to ask them: “Hey, how’re you? Weren’t the Seventies a drag? Let’s hope the Eighties will be better.”… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on January 8, 2010 at 7:45pm — No Comments

New year, new blog

One of my favorite Italian writ… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on January 2, 2010 at 3:45am — No Comments

My Manchurian Candidate

One of my biggest boosters has been Bill Ott, reviewer for the pre-publication revie… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on December 22, 2009 at 12:18am — No Comments

PW stars new Omar Yussef novel

Publishers Weekly, the pre-publication review, stars… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on December 21, 2009 at 3:55am — No Comments

That's my boy

I started to feel recently that my bio on www.mattbeynonrees.com was a bit over-serious. First of all, it was in the third person. I honestly never refer to myself in the third person (except when I'm shopping and I ask my wife "Would Matt Beynon Rees wear a shirt in this shade of pink?") Then I saw that the bio took my writing and -- worse still -- me, rather seriously. I prefer to make it clear that I can laugh at myself. So I changed the whole bio,… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 27, 2009 at 9:42pm — 1 Comment

THE FOURTH ASSASSIN on video

To introduce the next of my Palestinian crime novels, THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, my friend videographer David Blumenfeld filmed in New York (where the book takes place). His montages are mainly from Brooklyn's Bay Ridge and Coney Island sections. He then recorded me, looking sweaty and frankly a bit doped up, in my favorite seedy cafe in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter.

You can view it… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 28, 2009 at 4:44pm — No Comments

My latest culture clash

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: The Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family is a beautiful sandstone building on the corner where the Via Dolorosa turns briefly onto the main alley of the Muslim Quarter’s souq. Buzz at the main gate, climb up two flights of enclosed steps, and you’re in a palm-shaded garden fronting a broad, four-story façade. Nearly 150 years old, it was built for Catholic pilgrims… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 21, 2009 at 1:44am — No Comments

Video: Reading from THE FOURTH ASSASSIN

The next in my series of Palestinian crime novels THE FOURTH ASSASSIN will be out early next year. Meanwhile I've made a couple of videos to introduce the book. In this one, I went up onto the roof of the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem's Old City to read from Chapter One of the next book.

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Added by Matt Rees on August 16, 2009 at 9:51pm — No Comments

UK cover for THE FOURTH ASSASSIN

It's always a thrill for me to receive the covers of my forthcoming novels from my UK publisher Atlantic Books. They have a series feel in that there's a continuity to the design. Each one seems to get better. Here's the cover of THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, which will be published next February. I received it from my delightful editor in London Sarah Norman just this week. … Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 14, 2009 at 10:52pm — 1 Comment

Nasty nargila and biblical heat on video

My favorite little coffee shop in Jerusalem’s Old City is just inside the Muslim Q… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 14, 2009 at 10:23pm — 2 Comments

Happy Fourth of July Weekend, Crime Authors

To me, the Fourth is about individuals coming together to assert their rights against a tyrannical government. At least, that's what is was like in the 18th century. Whether that tradition continues today is debatable. It seems lost in the smell of char-grilled meat, bastardizations of Frisbee golf and cheesy, uber-patriotic radio tunes. But I don't think it's lost with those pa… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on July 4, 2009 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

My Fourth of July

You gotta love the Fourth of July (at least if you're a USAer). My day begins early as I bake pies (two pumpkin, two peanut butter) for the church social. I deliver them around 10:00 and then my husband and I do the once-a-year walk. Our little town is only about six blocks long, and on the Fourth the main street is closed to cars and the sidewalks become jam-packed with people, many of them old friends who've returned for the festivities. We walk all the way down one side of the street and then… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on July 3, 2009 at 10:50pm — No Comments