All Blog Posts Tagged 'literature' (29)

Normal for Norfolk: The Literary Collaboration of the Century

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on July 29, 2012 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Pitchforks, Jane Austen and Me

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on September 11, 2011 at 11:41am — No Comments

Does My Countenance Look Fat in This? (Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts)

How I came to write my scandalous version of the Jane Austen classic!

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on August 4, 2011 at 12:24am — No Comments

Mitzi Szereto Interview at Night Owl Reviews

Lots of book, publishing and marketing chat with Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts author Mitzi Szereto.

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on July 25, 2011 at 4:19am — No Comments

Interview with Mitzi Szereto on Visual Radio with Joe Viglione

Mitzi Szereto chats from South Florida with Boston’s Joe Viglione on Visual Radio in a two-part interview about books, writing, publishing, and her controversial new release Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts.

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on July 9, 2011 at 5:58am — No Comments

Interview with Mitzi Szereto on Book Talk

If you haven’t heard about my soon-to-be released book Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts , now’s your chance!

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on June 15, 2011 at 6:48am — No Comments

My burst Jerusalem bubble

My taxi pulled up at the traffic lights on the way into Jerusalem late Sunday night. A half dozen Breslav hassids were bouncing up and down in front of the traffic, waving signs and grinning with the exultation of wedding party dancers. They were singing, “Death to the Arabs.”

Welcome home, I thought.…

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Added by Matt Rees on March 17, 2011 at 9:59pm — No Comments

Mitzi Szereto chats on BBC Radio Shetland

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on March 9, 2011 at 3:20am — No Comments

Performance Reading with Mitzi Szereto and "Alf" the Cockney Devil

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on November 8, 2010 at 2:28am — No Comments

Interview with Mitzi Szereto on Newstalk Radio Ireland

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on October 28, 2010 at 5:06am — No Comments

Part #2 of Alex Steele and the Death Dealer has been uploaded

Excerpt from the Death Dealer

by Lawrence Johnson Sr.

Two hours later Steele found himself driving through the roughest

neighborhood in the city. No one in their right mind would come down

here alone in the daytime and most cops wouldn't risk traveling through

this part of town late at night but somehow on this dark, quiet night

Alexander Steele seemed to be drawn to it. There was movement in

shadows of the blocks and blocks of… Continue

Added by Lawrence Johnson on July 17, 2010 at 12:06am — No Comments

Part two of Alex Steele and the Death Dealer will be posted Thursday July 15th

(1st excerpt from Dealer of Death)

Two hours later Steele found himself driving through the roughest neighborhood in the city. No one in their right mind would come down here alone in the daytime and most cops wouldn't risk traveling through this part of town late at night but somehow on this dark, quiet night Alexander Steele seemed to be drawn to it. There was movement in shadows of the blocks and blocks of abandon buildings where it was commonplace to see hundreds of… Continue

Added by Lawrence Johnson on July 15, 2010 at 5:49am — No Comments

Book of A Lifetime: The King Must Die

The Independent has a regular feature in which it asks authors to write about a book which changed their lives somehow. Last week the London newspaper asked me to write the piece. Here it is:

In early 1999, King Hussein fell sick on his return from cancer treatment in the US. I was Middle East correspondent for The…

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Added by Matt Rees on February 22, 2010 at 5:07pm — 2 Comments

In your face Tom Jones: I'm a Welsh icon

Welsh Icons ("an Encyclopedia and Gazetteer of Wales and all Things Welsh - A Cymrupedia if you like."...uh, "Cymru" being the Welsh word for Wales.) lists me among the "iconic" writers on its site. That puts me in the company of thriller… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on December 28, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Acknowledge no one

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog:

Authors are posturing, self-aggrandizing assholes. At least, that’s the conclusion I’ve reached after noting the trend for excessive “Acknowledgements” growing like mold over page on page of nonfiction books. These days they’re spreading their blight all over novels, too.

Here’s how I think it breaks down.

More than a few… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on September 3, 2009 at 11:36pm — 5 Comments

Ellroy Queen: Megan Abbott’s Writing Life

Megan Abbott is the female James Ellroy. When I read her Edgar-award-winning “Queenpin,” I immediately was put in mind of everyone’s favorite noirmeister. Dig it. Even more I loved “The Song is You,” in which Abbott took a real-life missing persons case from 1949 and plumbed her Hollywood characters for real… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 26, 2009 at 1:53am — No Comments

Omar Yussef "the best crime fiction can achieve"

The first rock concert I ever attended was a performance by Canada's greatest rockers Rush. I've loved Canadians ever since. In the London (Ontario) Free Press recently, Joan Barfoot gave me another reason to adore them. She gives a terrific review to the second of my Palestinian crime novels A GRAVE IN GAZA (UK title The Saladin Murders). Of my… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 9, 2009 at 8:18pm — No Comments

Poetry from the ‘driest’ book of the Bible: Yakov Azriel’s Writing Life

A few years ago I was at a literary conference near Tel Aviv. I found an eclectic mix of writers on the panel with me. I’m a crime writer. You wouldn’t expect me to be paired with a writer of poetry who takes his inspiration from the stories of the Bible. But as Yakov Azriel read his poetry, I sat beside him… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 5, 2009 at 8:12pm — No Comments

Mitzi's Reading in Vienna, Austria

Mitzi Szereto reads an excerpt from her short story "Odalisque" (from her anthology "Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales") at Shakespeare & Company Booksellers, Vienna, Austria; 17 July 2009.

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Added by Mitzi Szereto on July 24, 2009 at 11:45pm — No Comments

Elmore Leonard's 11th Rule of Writing

I’ve always enjoyed Elmore Leonard’s novels and seen him as one of the true stylists of popular fiction. In a review, I even described my pal Christopher G. Moore as the “Elmore Leonard of Bangkok” and I meant it as a compliment. But I have a bone to pick with the great Elmore.

I just read a book of Elmore’s short stories from 2004 titled “When the Women Come Out to Dance.” In many ways it’s superb. The… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 15, 2009 at 10:59pm — 13 Comments