A Week in the Sunshine
James Hayman: Those of you who read my last blog on this site, A Moving Experience, know that my wife Jeanne and I have just survived the rigors of moving from our house on Peaks Island to another on...
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Can a Writer Retire?
Philip Roth, long one of my favorite writers, recently announced his retirement. In his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side there’s reportedly a post-it note stuck on his computer screen that...
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James Hayman: Remember the old line by what once upon a time were called skirt-chasers, “So many women. So little time?” These days it seems to apply more to other forms of entertainment that it...
View ArticleGetting Away With Murder
James Hayman: It wasn’t really McCabe’s kind of place. Or Maggie’s either. A dreary little hangout on the edge of town somewhere in rural Georgia where a few hardcore drinkers started downing shots...
View ArticleFrom Ox to Smack
James Hayman: Anyone who’s read my third McCabe/Savage thriller, Darkness First, knows the story opens with a bad guy named Conor Riordan smuggling 40,000 80mg oxycontin tablets stolen from a Canadian...
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The Cutting Redux
James Hayman: For thriller fans who may have missed it the first time around, my first McCabe/Savage book (and the first fiction I ever wrote), The Cutting, was re-released as an e-book yesterday (June...
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Mystery or thriller? What’s the difference?
James Hayman: These days, like most of the other writers who contribute to this blog, I’m frequently invited by bookstores, book discussion groups and public libraries to discuss the art and the craft...
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Alan Glynn’s Bloodland
A Beautifully-Plotted Thriller Full of Unexpected Twists and Turns. James Hayman: About an hour into Alan Glynn’s political thriller Bloodland, I turned to my wife and said, “I can’t follow what the...
View ArticleMy Left Foot
James Hayman: Two and a half weeks ago I was carrying a moderately heavy wooden table down the basement steps of our new house, missed the last step and fell over on my left foot. Happily I didn’t...
View ArticleA Grim Furry Tail
James Hayman: Once upon a time, not very long ago, in a kingdom by the sea known as Maine, there lived a beautiful artist and her slightly corpulent (but nonetheless swell-looking) husband, who was a...
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