The Best Paris I Know Now Is

I Don't Really Write Plots. I Use History As The Engine That Drives Everything.

One Is What One Has The Nerve To Pretend To Be.

The Printing Presses Of The State Treasuries Cranked Out Reams Of Paper Currency- Showing Wise Kinds And Blissful Martyrs- While Bankers Wept And Peasants Starved.

I Read Very Little Contemporary Anything.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.