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...play well,” Mahon said. “We weren’t there mentally.” The rest of Harvard’s season followed a similar pattern: the Crimson was dominated by most of its opponents and dropped another close five-game thriller to the Lions. On the bright side, Harvard’s younger players performed well and showed flashes of talent. Rookies Kathryn McKinley and Laura Mays started regularly and proved their ability to compete at the collegiate level. In the fall of 2006, with experienced junior and sophomore classes and the addition...
...novelist-colleague Stephen L. Carter, is a Yale law professor. He looked a a bit out of place at a noisy BookExpo cocktail party. But his publisher is parading its high-price debut novelist, having feted him at the New York restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there's no question that this...
...mobbed at BookExpo when he signed copies of his forthcoming new book, "Thunderstruck." Larson is not one to rest on his laurels, even though his last smash hit, "The Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home. He escapes with...
THIS BOOK IS BEING PACKAGED AS A BIT MORE OF A THRILLER THAN YOUR OTHER BOOKS. It's not a way I've written often. But there is a kind of hearty pleasure in writing when something worse might happen than the woman stalking out and slamming the door. Somebody not going to bed with somebody. I've written so much circumscribed by the domestic reality and peacetime. I have very little experience--I haven't fought in any of the wars that I've been a passive witness to, and I haven't had much violence in my life...
...FEEL AS IF IN THE PAST 10 OR 15 YEARS YOU'VE BEEN IN A RESTLESS, EXPLORING MOOD, PUSHING YOURSELF BEYOND THE REALM OF THE TRADITIONALLY UPDIKEAN BOOK. YOU'VE WRITTEN MAGIC REALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION AND NOW A THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle...