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Category: Erik Larson

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don’t think readers care. I also feel that it just about guarantees that somebody else will be writing a book on the same subject, but being a former journalist, I’m always interested in, like, why write about something today? Why do it now?

Today, I Am, Writing

One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.

Age, Book, Long

There began to appear before my romantic eyes…a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

biography, germany, history, hitler, war, world-war-ii

Murder was a fascination as always.

culture, distraction, entertainment, mortality, violence

New York’s perennial attraction was shopping.

commercialism, culture, materialism

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

culture, nostalgia, perspective, technology

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

appearances, competence, confidence, culture, professionalism

But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time.” Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.

bloom, life, poor, wealth

Dodd acknowledged Congress’s reluctance to become entangled abroad but added, “I do, however, think facts count; even if we hate them.

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

curiosity, leisure, writing

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.

discipleship, evangelism, graciousness, pastor, prophecy, word-of-god

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

influence, leadership