Final Hour First Chapter

June 20, 2011 Books

It occurs to me The Final Hour, the last book in the Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults, is only weeks away from its July 19th pub date, so to give you a taste, I’m going to post the first chapter here on Thursday.  The hero Charlie West has been through so much since [...]

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Homelanders Movie Update, Sort Of

June 13, 2011 Books

A lot of people have been writing to ask me about the status of the Homelanders movie.  My series of thriller novels for young adults was optioned last year by Summit Entertainment, the folks who brought you Twilight and Hurt Locker, to be produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura of Di Bonaventura Pictures, makers of Salt [...]

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Me on Steyn

June 7, 2011 Culture

Here’s a short piece I did for City Journal on the admirable Mark Steyn: Back in the nineties, when I was living in London, I stumbled on a minor columnist of major brilliance. Now and again, I’d find him in some newspaper, writing about a television show I’d never seen or a second-rate play I [...]

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Andrew’s New Blog At PJ Xpress!

June 6, 2011 Uncategorized

I hope you’ll come by my Klavan on the Culture blog at Pajamas XPress.  I’ll continue to post articles and career news on this site.

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KOC: The One State Solution

June 2, 2011 Videos

Just to show that PJTV’s Klavan on the Culture isn’t all frolicsome hijinks and mirthful merriment, in this edition we take time out to solve the problems of the Middle East.  Completely.  Once and for all.  In under four minutes.  And in a way that will leave you wondering:  Why didn’t anyone ever think of [...]

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Movie: Bridesmaids

June 1, 2011 Culture

[Possible spoiler - though I think everything here is in the trailer.] So regarding Bridesmaids:  reality check me here.  A bride and her bridesmaids go to a high-class dress shop.  They all get food poisoning and vomit and have diarrhea over everything.  Is that a funny idea?  Am I missing something?  I mean, I get [...]

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Still Moving!

May 31, 2011 Uncategorized

Some of you may have noticed that after announcing I’d be moving my blog back over to Pajamas Express sometime mid-May…  I haven’t.  But I will.  It’s just taking longer than I anticipated to iron out all the details.  This is because everyone involved is so swamped with working tirelessly for the public good, personal [...]

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Memorial Day

May 30, 2011 politics

“A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.  As long as justice and injustice [...]

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Me on Mamet

May 28, 2011 Books

Here’s my Wall Street Journal review of David Mamet’s new political book, The Secret Knowledge: “In a celebrated 2008 essay for the Village Voice, David Mamet made the startling announcement that he was “no longer a brain-dead liberal.” I think it only fair to mention here that I rejoiced. Mr. Mamet is a terrific playwright, [...]

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Book: Open

May 27, 2011 Books

Sports fans – tennis fans especially – have to read this, one of the best sports books I’ve ever read.  Andre Agassi’s autobiography has been out a while, so you’ve probably already heard the outline of how his overbearing father forced him into a sport he hated, how he went on hating it even as [...]

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