My life in 8 words: "Husband, father, writer. Loves: Robin, David, Michael, traveling."
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Stardust will be released on July 06, 2010 in Trade Paperback
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Stardust is now available in Trade Paperback
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Stardust will be released on September 29, 2009 in Hardcover
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Joseph Kanon's Books
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The Good GermanWith World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam...Read More
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Sky-Hi Daily News, May 3, 2010
...fans of this suspenseful genre. Title suggestions: • The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson • Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon • The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith Romance Book Clubs offer a chance for fans of this genre to compare notes on...
People's World, April 23, 2010
...the heroes are Communists. (But you can find them both on Amazon.com.) "The Good German," by Joseph Kanon, set in postwar Berlin, delves into the stories of the people who survived, and how they did so. Although its focus is not on the experience of the...
Globe and Mail, November 27, 2009
...Arthur Beauchamp, one of Canadian crime fictions truly original characters. The best novel by Deverell ever. STARDUST By Joseph Kanon, Atria Books Hollywood glamour, post-Second World War noir atmosphere, lies, betrayal, HUAC and the Holocaust. This...
Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2009
..." Ask him about the drugs and the Beatles. Things get underway at 10:30 a.m. with Joseph Kanon ("Stardust"), to be followed by Susan Kandel ("Dial H for Hitchcock"), Charlie Huston ("My Dead Body") and Frank Beddor, whose amped-up graphic-novel...
Globe and Mail, October 20, 2009
...swept away (though, luckily for me, the buildings used by Allied Occupation officials are still there). Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, Atria Books, 504 pages, $36 Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, Atria Books, 504 pages, $36 Los Angeles presented a different...
USA Today, October 14, 2009
...compelling account of pain and hardship linked to one of history's great tragedies. ? Memmott Stardust By Joseph Kanon Atria, 504 pp., $27.99 Joseph Kanon, who toiled in the publishing industry before he began writing World War II-era thrillers, knows...
Metronews, October 13, 2009
...Publisher: Atria Books Price: $36 (Hardcover) In the thrilling post-Second World War novel Stardust by Joseph Kanon, protagonist Ben Collier enters the world of American filmmaking only to become embroiled in a plot of epic proportions. Heâ??s...
Book Reporter, October 10, 2009
...Let?s set the scene: Hollywood, 1945, a town entrenched in cocktail parties, cast parties and political parties. Partying is the town?s pastime. At one such party, a senator is the guest of honor, talking with studio heads, actors, filmmakers ---...
Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2009
...of whom can concoct just as heady, relentless a plot as anything involving symbols or codes. To wit: Joseph Kanon, whose ahem literary thriller Stardust is so engrossing it kept me from even taking a peek into The Lost Symbol, which was waiting right...
Washington Post, October 6, 2009
...In 'Stardust,' Joseph Kanon does a noir take on a noir time and place: Hollywood in the late '40s. There's an image-within-an-image effect here that evokes the hall-of-mirrors shootout in 'The Lady...
Denver Post, October 4, 2009
...Stardust, by Joseph Kanon, $27.99. James Ellroy fans will find a lot to like in this gritty look at post-World War II Hollywood from Edgar-winner Kanon, author of 'Los Alamos.' Kanon perfectly...
Telegraph, September 4, 2009
...Park by Martin Cruz Smith A Californian writing about Russia in a Scandinavian way. 18 Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon My current favourite writers debut excellent. 19 Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell Theres a reason she became so popular and this is it. 20...
The Blogs at HowStuffWorks, August 11, 2010
...Three months ago, Cristen and I asked our Stuff Mom Never Told You listeners to send us their summer reading lists. The response has been wonderful, and we've been sharing the reading lists during the podcasts, as well as on Facebook and Twitter. But...
Scribblings, June 27, 2010
...godmother shows up in waders, so this is probably just relative.) Brief but delightful.The Good German, by Joseph Kanon. During the reparations talks after WWII, a journalist returns to Berlin looking for an old flame and lands in a murder mystery. The...
Omnivoracious, June 1, 2010
...observes. It does. Pouryourself a stiff one, fasten your seat belt and enjoy this bumpy butnever boring ride." Joseph Kanon on Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre: "'Operation Mincemeat' has been No. 1 on the Sunday Times list in London,and no wonder....
Joy's Blog, January 2, 2010
...Homer & Langley . E.L. Doctorow [review to come] The Uncommon Reader . Alan Bennett [review to come] Stardust . Joseph Kanon [review to come] The Lover . Marguerite Duras [review to come] Santa Clawed . Rita Mae Brown [review to come] Christmas Card...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, December 16, 2009
...& Noble Review : Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Joseph Kanon Michael Specter The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann Ivory's Ghosts: The...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed, November 9, 2009
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Dead Things ON Sticks, October 19, 2009
...typewriter off to a hotel room to write, Canadian novelist Annabel Lyon ( The Golden Mean ) and American author Joseph Kanon ( Stardust ) install themselves in a public library. Some writers walk their dogs – excellent procrastination facilitators...
Chefdruck Musings, September 5, 2009
...Stardust , the latest novel by Joseph Kanon, reads like a great black and white classic movie. From the first sentence, "As it happened, Sol Lasner was also on the train," the reader is propelled in...
