"Empire of Lies" Now Available on Amazon
Jun 19, 2008
Andrew's new novel "Empire of Lies," is now available on Amazon.com. It's the story of Jason Harrow, a Christian family man drawn by his search for a missing woman back to the scenes of his degraded past. Slowly, Harrow begins to feel that a dangerous conspiracy is being obscured by the bland, dishonest political correctness of the news and entertainment media. Is he losing his mind as his mother did before him? Or is he the last best hope we have? Click on Andrew's blog to read an interview with him about the book.
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Andrew a "Right Wing Crackpot" and Loving It
Jun 19, 2008
The Associated Press - crowned by media watchdog Powerline as "the worst source of media bias" - has attacked Andrew's new novel "Empire of Lies" for its political stance. Little wonder, as the empire of the title is an American culture stultified by the dishonesty of the left wing media! The reviewer says: "Klavan occupies the portion of the political spectrum commonly known as right-wing crackpot. Through Harrow he tells us, among other things, that the entire media is a left-wing conspiracy, that taxes steal from the rich to give to the poor, that America is in a holy war with Islam, that the truth about darned near everything in the United States is obscured by a blizzard of politically correct lies and that anyone who disagrees with him is deluded." Andrew's laughing response: "Uh, yeah? And? Where's the problem?" More to come, no doubt.
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New City Journal Essay Available
Jun 4, 2008
Andrew's provocative new essay, Story Time, is now available online at City Journal. It begins:
I visited a fourth-grade class in a slum school recently. Since I’m a storyteller by trade, the teacher asked me if I’d tell the kids a story. Now I’m a good storyteller and an all-around charming guy, no doubt, but I wasn’t prepared for the degree of fascination I inspired. Rambunctious mischief ceased on the instant and resolved itself into riveted attention and awestruck stares. I was awfully pleased with myself by the time I was done.
“Don’t take it personally,” the teacher told me brusquely. “It’s just that they’ve never seen anyone like you before. A man—obviously tough—who’s not a gangster.”
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Pre-Publication Praise for "Empire of Lies."
May 14, 2008
The first review of Andrew's new novel "Empire of Lies" is out and it's a good one. Publishers Weekly, the publishing industry's premiere trade magazine, calls the book "a wickedly satiric thriller with political overtones" and says its "action builds to an explosive climax." The novel tells the story of Jason Harrow, once a dissolute and amoral New Yorker, now a conservative and religious family man living in the mid-west. When a phone call from a former lover calls Jason back to New York, he's drawn into a search for a missing woman who holds the key to a perilous mystery. Trying to uncover the truth when the American media, academy and entertainment business obscure it under a mountain of politically correct lies, Jason can't tell whether he's on the trail of a terrorist plot or is simply going mad - or both. "Empire of Lies" is scheduled for publication in mid-July from Harcourt/Penzler Press.
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Andrew Named Contributing Editor
Feb 28, 2008
Andrew has been named a contributing editor to "City Journal," the magazine of the Manhattan Institute. The Journal, edited by Brian Anderson, regularly features articles by such contributors as Christopher Hitchens, Myron Magnet, Theodore Dalrymple, and Heather Mac Donald and was cited by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as a major source of ideas for his administration. Andrew has so far contributed pieces of film criticism to the Journal, including "The Sin of Sin City" and "The Lost Art of War," as well as more personal pieces, like "The Big White Lie," reprinted here in his blog. "Story Time," Andrew's description of his visit to an underclass school will appear in CJ's spring issue.
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