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The first time my wife and I visited Italy, we went to Florence and Tuscany. To say it was among the best vacations we ever took would be like saying espresso is mildly stimulating. There was so much to see and appreciate. The Uffizi Galleries. Michelangelo’s 17-foot marble statue of The David. The Leaning Tower of Pisa. The Ponte Vecchio. The food. The wine. The Italian people, so...
Every detail about that glorious day you soloed is burned into your memory like the day your kids were born. Every time you hear an aircraft overhead you automatically look up, wishing that was you. You forget all the greasers you made this month and stew over that one really not-so-good landing. You pat your plane like a trusty steed after safely arriving at your destination. You try...
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re a storyteller and you aspire to set your book’s protagonist apart in the world of crime fiction. Myriad considerations factor into how a writer goes about assigning their hero a name. Sometimes it’s a simple function of the way the name sounds, how it rolls off the tongue. Michael Connolly, with whom I had the pleasure of sharing several...
Recent studies have found that most people Google themselves. Indeed, a survey in May 2021 of nearly 9,400 adults* found that nearly one in ten people look up their name online every day using one or more search engines. “Ego surfing,” it’s called. Vanity and curiosity aside, internet searches are a good way to research the history of a prospective dinner date, or the background of...
I’ve read no shortage of spectacular books over the years, more than a few of which came wrapped in some pretty unspectacular covers. Conversely, I’ve read—or tried to read–some truly awful books that came camouflaged behind the most fantastic and ultimately misleading covers imaginable. Books are a lot like people. As the old adage goes, looks can be deceiving. Never judge what’s inside either based on outward...
On that day in June 1994, when Los Angeles police officers brought in O.J. Simpson for questioning in the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ron Goldman, I was 800 miles in Durango, Colorado, working on a cheeseburger, nursing a cold beer, and watching the media frenzy play out on a wall-mounted TV in the bar where I was having lunch. The sky over downtown LA...