There’s no substitute for getting your hands dirty when you research a story
Comic book writer and novelist Greg Rucka lists some of the craziest things he’s done in the name of research. You can find out a lot of stuff on the Internet, but there’s no substitute for real experience. Best interview question I’ve ever been asked: What’s the worst thing your parents think you’ve done? Not…
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Greg Rucka
In “Witz,” a plague makes the last Jew on Earth a mega-celebrity
Jewish history features enough real apocalypses to daunt even the most powerful imagination. But that didn’t stop Joshua Cohen from producing Witz, a colossal novel about the last Jew on Earth. Benjamin Israelien, a Candide-like innocent, is the sole survivor of the extermination-by-plague of all the other Jews in the world at the turn of…
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Sacha Arnold
