empire of lies

After “Empire” Cancellation, “ID Man” Gets French Release

November 28, 2011 News

French publisher Calmann Levy has published Andrew’s latest adult thriller The Identity Man under the title Un tout autre homme. The novel tells the story of a thief, John Shannon, given a new identity and a chance to redeem himself in a corrupt and burned out city. The Calmann Levy edition is Andrew’s first French [...]

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Censoring Me

August 17, 2010 politics

The impressive Jamie Glazov, editor of the likewise impressive Frontpage Magazine, did a quick but intense interview with me last week.  It was headlined “Censoring Klavan” and dealt mostly with the recent cancellation of Empire of Lies in France.   We did touch on other subjects however.  For instance, here’s me on the Ground Zero Mosque: “I [...]

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Me in City Journal on the Media

July 27, 2010 Culture

The truly estimable City Journal has posted my reaction to–well, to several things:  Journolist, Breitbart and the cancellation of my novel Empire of Lies in France for “political and religious” reasons: The book’s French cancellation is, I realize, a rather small cultural event. Yet it gives specific color to the recent revelations on the Daily [...]

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Notes on the Culture

July 26, 2010 Culture

INCEPTION Well, it works, which, given the concept, is a small miracle in and of itself.  Plus, about two of its two and a half hours are really involving and entertaining and, in this summer of mostly crummy movies, that makes it feel like some sort of masterpiece.  But what Inception really is is a [...]

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Mass Market Me

July 6, 2010 Culture

Hey, for those of you who have somehow neglected to pick up a copy of Empire of Lies in its hardcover or trade paper incarnation, it’s now out in a mass market version.  It’s one of my best novels, I think, and if you don’t believe me, listen to the terrific Wall Street Journal columnist [...]

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New York Nod

June 8, 2010 Culture

Was happy to get a nice nod in a New York Magazine feature called “If You Liked My Book, You’ll Like These.”  Editor extraordinaire Otto Penzler was asked for suggestions to compliment his new espionage anthology Agents of Treachery, which features my short story “Sleeping with My Assassin.”  Along with works by the incomparable John [...]

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“Empire of Lies” to go Mass Market

May 4, 2010 News

Empire of Lies, Andrew’s controversial and bestselling thriller of a troubled man’s battle against media lies in the age of terror, will finally have a mass market paperback release this June.  Praised as “a great new thriller,” by Glenn Beck, and derided as the work of a “right-wing crackpot” by the Associated Press, Empire was [...]

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