One Is What One Has The Nerve

Whether You Like It Or Not, Paris Is The Beating Heart Of Western Civilisation. It's Where It All Began And Ended.

The Printing Presses Of The State Treasuries Cranked Out Reams Of Paper Currency- Showing Wise Kinds And Blissful Martyrs- While Bankers Wept And Peasants Starved.

I Grew Up Reading Genre Writers, And To The Degree That Eric Ambler And Graham Greene Are Genre Writers, I'm A Genre Writer.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.

I'm Basically An Upper West Side Jewish Writer.