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All Novels Are About Crime. You'd Be Hard Pressed To Find Any Novel That Does Not Have An Element Of Crime. I Don't See Myself As A Crime Novelist, But There Are Crimes In My Books. That's The Nature Of Storytelling, If You Want To Reflect The Real World.

I Still Do A Weekly Opinion Column For The Miami Herald, And It's Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel. Rotten Fish.

The One Word That No Politician Will Ever Speak, Is 'enough.' Enough.

The Thieves Of Manhattan Is A Sly And Cutting Riff On The Book-publishing World That Is Quite Funny Unless You Happen To Be An Author, In Which Case The Novel Will Make You Consider A More Sensible Profession-like Being A Rodeo Clown, For Example, Or A Crab-fisherman In The Bering Sea.

I Think In The Old Days, The Nexus Of Weirdness Ran Through Southern California, And To A Degree New York City. I Think It's Changed So That Every Bizarre Story In The Country Now Has A Florida Connection. I Don't Know Why, Except It Must Be Some Inversion Of Magnetic Poles Or Something.