Andrew Breitbart, One Year Later

March 3, 2013 Culture

It’s been a year since the death of my friend Andrew Breitbart. I wrote this reflection for the Big sites that are a major part of his legacy: For a few weeks after Andrew Breitbart’s death, I allowed my personal sorrow to color my worldview.  All around me, I heard brave voices saying that Andrew’s [...]

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“Killer in the Wind” in Mystery Scene

February 24, 2013 Books

“Andrew Klavan Focuses on Heroes, Victims” is the interesting headline on a good, short interview with me in Mystery Scene Magazine. The interview focuses on my new thriller for adults, “A Killer in the Wind,” and the headline comes from this exchange with interviewer Oline Codgill: A Killer in the Wind is unflinching in its look [...]

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New Book Jacket Preview!

February 20, 2013 Books

Nightmare City — my new novel for young adults — won’t be out until November, but the good people at Thomas Nelson publishers are already at work creating the cover. Here’s what they’re working on:

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An Option on “Damnation Street”

February 10, 2013 Books

What I guess is now the leading show business trade “publication” — Nikki Finke’s blog Deadline Hollywood — had a nice mention of a project of mine this week. And — cool! — this is my blog, so I get to link to it here: Fox Hill Productions has optioned development and production rights to Andrew Klavan’s mystery trilogy Dynamite [...]

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Klavan in Chains!

February 3, 2013 Books

  I don’t do this sort of thing often, but I really enjoyed speaking to the high school age students of the Second Baptist School in Houston during their Book Fair last week. What a great school, truly. Great kids, terrific librarians, and the few teachers I met also seemed top-notch. They arranged a place [...]

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My Take on the Oscars

January 13, 2013 Culture

I can’t help making fun of Oscar nominations. It’s not that I don’t think the films are good — very often they are. It’s just that they all have one political point of view, which reinforces the idea that our creative class has become more lockstep conformist than, say, any six guys you could find [...]

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A Nice Review From FictionAddict.Com

January 6, 2013 Books

Getting a good review from FictionAddict.com — “Fiction Addict: Helping You Find Your Next Fix” — makes me feel like my books should be sold on the street corner by a guy in a raincoat! Obviously, I’m kidding. More seriously, I was pleased by Josh Olds’ take on If We Survive, my young adult thriller [...]

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“A Killer in the Wind” Excerpt

January 1, 2013 Books

As you can see in the news section to your left, my new novel for adults A Killer in the Wind, officially published January 8th, is nonetheless now on sale — and Amazon has chosen it as one of its best crime novels of the month. Personally, I think it’s one of the best books I’ve [...]

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Our Culture and Christ: A Klavan on The Culture Christmas Blog

December 23, 2012 Culture

All art — all storytelling, picture-making, music — is an attempt to record and communicate the experience of being human. There are no words for this experience. Only metaphor and imagery and music will do. All peoples leave these traces of themselves. It’s their way of saying not just “We were here,” but “We were [...]

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My Strange Day

December 9, 2012 Culture

William Faulkner was once asked how he wanted his obituary to read. His answer: “He wrote the books and died.” Meaning no comparison to Faulkner’s greatness, this was how I always approached my own career. I very much wanted to write stories and essays that moved people and inspired them, that they enjoyed and remembered. [...]

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