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Just So You Know

April 1, 2010 Culture

This is kind of cool.  AOL’s youth oriented “Just So You Know” page has a piece up on Summit Entertainment’s film option of my Homelanders series.  The post, “Could The Homelanders Be The Next Twilight?” asks who would be best to play hero Charlie West.  Check it out.

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God-Shaped Hole

March 29, 2010 Culture

As they did in the beginning, Passover and Holy Week coincide this year, and yet not one major film being released for the season has anything whatsoever to do with religion. Nowhere is popular entertainment more bizarrely alienated from the lives of ordinary people than in the matter of God. Why should this be? Let [...]

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Booklist On “Long Way Home”

March 23, 2010 Culture

This Daniel Krause review of The Long Way Home in Booklist sailed under my radar on publication, but is now posted on the book’s Amazon site (click the link).  Booklist is a major trade publication for school and public libraries.  Here’s the review: “Unfortunately for Charlie, little has changed since the climax of The Last [...]

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Brandi is Dandi

March 18, 2010 Videos

I recently sat down with PJTV’s lovely and talented and did I mention lovely Brandi Milloy for a ten minute video interview about the Homelanders series.  It’s good stuff with nice visuals.  You can watch it here.

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Charlie at the Catholic Exchange

March 17, 2010 Culture

Christi Find has posted a nice review of The Long Way Home at the Catholic Exchange.  Christi appreciates the faith of the novel’s hero Charlie West: “Andrew Klavan, whose fans include fellow novelist Stephen King, has written another lightning fast thriller — for teens, of all people. Klavan’s style reminds me of the TV series [...]

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Praise For “Long Way Home”

February 27, 2010 Culture

Daniell Crandall posts a glowing review for The Long Way Home with our friends at The American Culture. “Andrew Klavan’s latest grabs you at the opening, with a life or death knife fight in a public library’s bathroom, and never lets go. With this book, Andrew goes head to head with video games for kids’, [...]

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Me Vs Avatar

February 12, 2010 Culture

There’s a really well-done interview with me posted at the excellent CNSNews website.  Includes a nice mention of my new novel  The Long Way Home which – have I mentioned? – you can buy on Amazon if you hit the link. But I also appreciate that Senior Staff Writer Penny Starr did a fine job [...]

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Feb. 2 = Pub Date

February 2, 2010 News

The Long Way Home is now officially published!  The second book in the Homelanders series is available on Amazon and at a bookstore near you.  Book one in the series, The Last Thing I Remember, is also available.

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Me On Them On Me

January 29, 2010 Culture

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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New Interview

January 23, 2010 Culture

A website called “A Passion for Books” features a brief but kind of pithy interview with me keyed around the Feb 2 release of my new Homelanders novel, The Long Way Home.   The first Q&A: Q: Describe your book in five words or less. A:  Five words??? Okay: “A face-full of flaming Awesome!” Ha!  Who [...]

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