June 24th, 2012

The intellectual & visceral meaning of Dracula

Dracula in Love

I really enjoyed doing this sixty minute radio interview with Jon Hansen.  Few interviewers come so well-prepared to discuss a book on so many different levels with an author.  Hope you enjoy.

 

Dracula in Love radio interview with Jon Hansen

February 12th, 2011

Egypt: Then and Now

I have been having conversations with Egyptian friends and scholars, readers who are revisiting my novel Kleopatra, and book clubs that are reading it for the first time. It’s just amazing how history is repeating itself two thousand years later. “Egyptians have never been passive,” says an Egyptian friend. “We have attracted despots and dictators throughout our history but we have always rebelled against them.”

In Kleopatra, the unruly populace

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