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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!
For gun salesmen like Issac Rodriguez, business is booming
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Brad Vercosa has passed Jimmy’s Sport Shop in Mineola, Long Island countless times, but last Thursday he approached the counter, still in his slippers, to buy his first gun. The construction company owner is one of nearly five million Americans who have purchased their first firearm over the past 12 months, driving what analysts are calling the greatest gun-buying spree in the country’s history.
The seeds were sown with the onset of the pandemic last spring, and grew in response to Black Lives Matter demonstrations and pro-Trump rallies over the summer. But for many of Jimmy Gong’s customers in Mineola – a suburban village 20 miles east of the skyscrapers of Manhattan – the storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump demonstrators on January 6 was the inflection point.