Amy Gentry: On Writing Thrillers and Following Your Gut
Thriller author Amy Gentry shares her experience writing her latest novel, Bad Habits, and why it s important to take full ownership of your work.
Author:
Good as Gone, a
New York Times Notable Book, and
Last Woman Standing. She is also a book reviewer and essayist whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the
Chicago Tribune, Salon, the
Los Angeles Review of Books, and the
Austin Chronicle. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago and lives in Austin, Texas.
Amy Gentry
Bad Habits, why it s important to take full ownership of your work, and more!
separate code word system because it was being leaked. doesn t that kind of make sense especially when trump releases the transcript why would you release something you were hiding? it wasn t about trying to hide something. it was about trying to protect something from being being leaked. that is common sense. when you are flooded with cognitive bias you can t see the sense. can you only see what you want to believe. dana: especially when they say this is a practice we started after that. if they were to say that that would certainly help them. and to your pointed about the complaint and second hand knowledge, a lawyer i talked to today, jesse, said this document would be inadmissible in a court of laugh because it would be considered hearsay and no judge would allow it. jesse: well, i read the complaint and it reads like a thriller novel and it reads like it was professionally teed up by conspiracy inside the white house trying to destroy the president before the president destroy
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did a great job. and i feel that if i ve don t do everything i can to help find their real child, then i am not doing my job as a son. that is a thriller novel. that s unbelievable. two incredibly sad stories. now he has no idea where he really came from. he turned up at a supermarket. his entire family who knows where they were. he was abandoned. some where out there is paul fronczak. this other child taken from his mother s arms. nobody knows if the child ended up, grew up, safe. or its destiny ended up being. so here is what is crazy about the way things used to work 49 years ago. police, they connected him to the family back in chicago because they said that he, he had the same kind of pointed ears. pointy ears. pointy ears. the age matched as the kid had gone missing. that was enough for them to be okay. here you go. no dna testing. not at all. no blood test.
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, herman cain, the gop frontrunner fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. i absolutely reject. they simply didn t happen. they simply did not happen. four women have now accused the gop candidate of inappropriate behavior and we now know the identity of two. just hours ago, we learned more about another accuser, her name is karen kraushaar, director of communications at the treasury department and according to a friend, she called cain a quote/unquote monster. this is the woman whose lawyer told the nation on friday that his client did not want to identify herself and did not want to divulge any details about the alleged encounter. but obviously, she is saying now that she would do so, perhaps with other people in a press conference. niger ennis is an unofficial adviser to herman cain s campaign. appreciate you taking the time to come out and talk about this tonight. i just want to ask you this, have you at the campaign