Feature: Scott Butki's Book Time: Interviews with Authors
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Interview With A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Year Of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible - Part 3 of 3— "I became far more aware of my actions and their consequences." - AJ Jacobs on how the project changed him
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An Interview With Howard Kurtz, Author of Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War, Part Two— "I think Katie Couric made a number of mistakes when she got to CBS and is paying the price."
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Part 2 - An Interview With Writer Kinky Friedman, Author of You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics — "Texans are big-hearted and they know that killing people is not our job."
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An Interview With Writer Kinky Friedman, Author of You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics — "I wrote this book for the same reason I ran for governor — to try to make Texas a better place."
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An Interview With Howard Kurtz, Author of Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War, Part One— "I get valuable information and insights from bloggers. And if it's a rough neighborhood, so be it."
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Interview With Bill Bryan, Author of Keep It Real Part Two— "Since reality shows are so much cheaper to produce, they have proliferated like crabs at Woodstock."
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An Interview With Wesley Stace AKA John Wesley Harding About His Novel, By George— "Writing books is more difficult, by far, though ultimately more rewarding. Making music is much more immediate."
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Interview With A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Year Of Living Biblically— "I'm Jewish in the same way that the Olive Garden is Italian."
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An Interview With Charlie Huston, Author of The Shotgun Rule, Part Two— "I try and give the locations in all my books a certain amount of texture" - Charles Huston
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Inteview With Bill Bryan, Author of Keep It Real, Part One— "Yes, there is definitely an element of revenge in my writing Keep It Real" - Bill Bryan
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An Interview With Tom Straw, Author of The Trigger Episode, Part Two— Why work in the exciting field of the paparazzi?: "Mainly because the national Do Not Call List has limited opportunities in telemarketing."
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An Interview With Robert Fulghum, Author of What On Earth Have I Done?— "What’s not to like about bacon? Yes, I was a singing cowboy."
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An Interview With Mike Carey, Author of The Devil You Know - Part Two — "Some people make assumptions about me because of the kind of material I write. They expect someone dark and brooding"
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An Interview With George Shuman, Author of Last Breath, Part Two— "Truth lends a lot of authority to a story, just as ... truth lends a lot of authority to a lie."
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An Interview With Tom Straw, Author of The Trigger Episode Part One— "The Trigger Episode [is] in the first person [to] help a reader empathize with a guy doing basically despicable work as a paparazzo."
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The Five Best Books I've Read This Year— "She and I agreed the best description of her style was "“Nancy Drew after a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
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An Interview With Mike Carey, Author of The Devil You Know - Part One — "Some stories work best in comic form, others play beautifully as novels – and some translate readily into any medium."
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An Interview With George Shuman, Author of Last Breath, Part One— "... I can’t imagine myself looking up psychics in the yellow pages if I was in a slump over clues."
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An Interview With Jeffrey Deaver, Author of Sleeping Doll— "My value-added is the twists and the surprise endings, which I spend months plotting out."
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Interview With Giles Blunt, Author of By The Time You Read This — "I wanted to write a thriller that deals with the real emotions of the crimes involved: murder and child molestation."
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Interview With Jack Getze, Author of Big Numbers— "Go ahead and buy it. If you don't like it, send it back to me and I'll refund your money. "
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An Interview With Patrick Anderson, Author of The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction, Part Two— "I’m just glad to see good crime writers making the bestseller lists, which they weren’t doing much until the 1980s"
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Interview With Lloyd Dangle, Author of Troubletown— "With the worst president in history and our liberties and values under threat, I can hardly imagine writing cartoons about other things right now."
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Interview With Film Critic Roger Ebert, Author of Your Movie Sucks - Part Two— "My health is good, considering that I had to go through rehab twice after two surgeries to learn to walk again..."
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Interview With Andrew Keen, Author of The Cult Of The Amateur— "Who is this Butki? Why is he giving away his labor for free? And why should I trust him?" - Andrew Keen
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Interview with Karen Hanson, Author of Today's Chicago Blues, Part 2— "Today, Chicago is still a mecca for blues music, just as it was in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and so on."
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An Interview With Glasgow Phillips, Author of The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up? - Part 2— "This will probably sounds strange to anyone who's read the book, but I'm working on a DVD reading tool for kids" - Glasgow Phillips
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An Interview With Film Critic Roger Ebert, Author of Your Movie Sucks— "I am always subjective. Objectivity has nothing to do with critical opinion."
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Interview With Walter Isaacson, Author of Einstein: His Life And Universe— Einstein once said, "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not."
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Interview With Matt Richtel, Author of Hooked: A Thriller About Love and Other Addictions— "And now I hope that readers can experience some of the passion and emotion that I felt while writing."
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Interview with Karen Hanson, Author of Today's Chicago Blues, Part 1— "The blues addresses universal themes in life. We all know what it's like to be lonely, rejected, betrayed and down on our luck."
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Interview With Ann Rule, Author Of Too Late To Say Goodbye— "Sometimes people write me mean letters saying I'm just writing what I do to make money" - Ann Rule
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Interview With John Burnett, Author of Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent - Part 2— "And yes, this was a tough story, but I wouldn't trade the Katrina experience for anything in my career." - John Burnett
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Interview with Mystery Writer James Lee Burke, Part Two— "In regard to the future, I hope to write short stories and essays and novels until I catch the bus." - James Lee Burke
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An Interview With Patrick Anderson, Author of The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction, Part One— "Time is on our side. Lehane and Connelly and Pelecanos and some others will live long enough to be accepted as modern masters."
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Interview With John Burnett, Author of Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions: Travels with an NPR Correspondent - Part 1— "The Pentagon implicitly understood what happens when journalists are inserted into war-fighting units. People who share adversity grow closer."
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Interview With Barry Eisler, Author of Thriller Requiem For An Assassin— "On the most obvious level, I set out write a thrilling story. Judging from most reviews and reader reactions, I've succeeded."
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Interview with Donald Westlake, Author of What's So Funny — "For me, the characters are part of the story, and come out of its development" - Donald Westlake
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Interview with Mystery Writer James Lee Burke, Part One— "I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense."
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Book Reviews: Thank You For Smoking And Boomsday by Christopher Buckley— If you find much of life and politics so absurd as to be hilarious, you need to read Christopher Buckley's books.
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Interview with Michael Connelly, Author of The Overlook— "The book reviews were a huge part of putting me on the road I am on now."
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Book Review: High Profile, Spare Change, and Edenville Owls by Robert Parker— While many writers put out maybe one book a year, three new whodunnits by the prolific Robert Parker are being published this year alone.
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Interview With Tim Green, Author of American Outrage — "I hosted A Current Affair, which I like to think wasn't as sleazy as American Outrage..." - Author Tim Green
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Interview: Martha Kimes, Author of Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student— Take the stress of The Paper Chase, the cattiness of Legally Blonde, toss in some alcohol, and tone it all down a bit.
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Part Two of an Interview with Sara Voorhees, Film Critic and Novelist— "I would never put myself in the category of my favorite critics." - Sara Voorhees
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Interview with Donald E. Westlake, Author of What's So Funny?— "Reality is stranger than fiction because God doesn't have to worry about being plausible."
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An Interview With Glasgow Phillips, Author of The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?— "In which the author, a failure at literature, fails likewise at pornography..."
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Interview with Sara Voorhees, Author of The Lumiere Affair: A Novel of Cannes— "I’m a journalist, and I’m part of the publicity machine that Nattie is drawn to and yet confounded by."
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