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Inglorious Basterds

Goldstein, Tarantino and House of Leaves

March 9, 2010

A couple of weeks ago Patrick Goldstein, lefty critic of the lefty Los Angeles Times, had a go at me for my attack on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. I didn’t say at the time that I was right and Goldstein was wrong because, of course, it went without saying. But he did make a point [...]

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Me On Them On Me

January 29, 2010

Patrick Goldstein, lefty LA Times movie dude, unloaded on me the other day for my take on Inglorious Basterds (see below). I responded by having John Nolte go over there and kneecap the guy (you do not want to mess with Nolte). But there was a smarter and more considered response from S.T. Karnick over [...]

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Inglorious Malarkey

January 26, 2010

I had to lay out six bucks to watch Inglorious Basterds on Pay Per View because the wait on Netflix was just too long. So clearly Quentin Tarantino’s fantasy adventure about a band of Jews who wander around occupied France killing and torturing German soldiers is doing well on DVD. And listen, there’s no denying [...]

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News
- A Klavan Christmas
  27 Jul 2010
  
  Andrew’s Christmas story The Killer Christian will have yet another incarnation in this December’s anthology Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop from Vanguard Press. The volume also features Christmas stories by Mary Higgins Clark, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block and others. Andrew’s tale of a mob hit-man redeemed by a Christmas hoax had its first publication as [...]
- The Third Homelanders Scheduled
  20 Jul 2010
  
  November will be a two book month for Andrew. Thomas Nelson publishers have scheduled The Truth of the Matter, the third book in the young adult Homelanders tetralogy, for a November 2nd pub date. The Identity Man, Andrew’s next thriller for adults, is scheduled for November 11 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Nelson Demille Praises ID Man
  13 Jul 2010
  
  Advance praise keeps coming in for Andrew’s next adult thriller The Identity Man. Suspense novelist powerhouse Nelson DeMille has now read the book and says in part, “The Identity Man goes beyond thriller, and Andrew Klavan goes beyond thriller writer. Fast-paced, intelligent, and thought-provoking. A great read.” DeMille joins Glenn Beck and Stephen J. Cannell [...]
- Glenn Beck Praises ID Man
  6 Jul 2010
  
  The magnificent Glenn Beck has now read Andrew’s next adult thriller, The Identity Man, and had this to say: “Andrew Klavan never disappoints. The Identity Man is one of the best illustrations of the power of redemption that I’ve ever read. There are a lot of great thrillers out there, but this [...]
- Double Dutch Shotgun
  29 Jun 2010
  
  Shotgun Alley, the second in Andrew’s great Weiss/Bishop trilogy, will have a second publication in Holland as part of an Omnibus edition. De Boekerij, Andrew’s Dutch publisher, will reissue Shotgun in a single volume with the The Hit List by British action writer Chris Ryan. In Shotgun, private eye Jim Bishop joins a criminal motorcycle [...]