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Ross Thomas
Ross was a good friend, and I miss him. I wrote about him in a piece I did for Mystery Scene, and supplied an introduction for a reissue of http://tinyurl.com/5rbvw8n, so let me only that I find his work—under his own name and as Oliver Bleeck—wonderfully entertaining...
John O’Hara
If I have a favorite writer, he's it. I've re-read virtually everything of O'Hara's, some books many times, and have never lost the feeling that he captures American lives better than anyone else. It's fashionable to praise his short stories over his novels,...
Evan Hunter
Evan was a role model for me years before I ever heard the term. That he eventually became a good friend was a source of enormous satisfaction to me. Sometimes the intimacy of friendship can keep the fiction from working, but that certainly didn't happen here. I have...
Campus Tramp
In May, while I was out in California promoting the just-published A Drop of the Hard Stuff, I teamed up with Robert Silverberg for an onstage dialogue at a library in the Bay Area. We talked about our separate genres, crime and science fiction, but much of our talk...