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Thank you, loyal reader, for visiting my website – and for the enthusiastic response to my fourth novel, Jericho’s Fall. For me, the occasion of publishing a novel is a moment of nervousness. Each time, I worry about whether my fans will like the new one as much as the last one. So far, as the novel pops onto best-seller lists around the country, the evidence is that you are enjoying Jericho’s Fall. I am delighted, because I write to entertain.
As far back as I can remember, I have loved putting words together on a page. Back in elementary school, I used to buy ten-cent notebooks at the store near my home in Washington, D.C., filling their pages with what I called my “stories” – tales of aliens who would have conquered the earth but for a plucky little boy – that sort of thing. As a student, I was always drawn to opportunities to write. At Ithaca High School, my greatest passion was the student newspaper, of which I became editor-in-chief during my senior year. In college, I served as a columnist and managing editor for the Stanford Daily. In law school, I devoted myself to the Yale Law Journal. Everywhere I have been, I have wanted to write. Part of what I enjoy most about my work as a law professor at Yale is the writing.
I believe in words, and I believe in books. When I write nonfiction, I am hoping to persuade. When I write fiction, I am hoping only to entertain. That is really my only purpose in writing novels: to entertain my audience with well-crafted characters and thrilling, twisting plot lines.
On tour, people keep asking what else I am writing. My fifth novel will be coming in June of 2010, and a non-fiction book about the future of democracy should arrive the following fall. As long as you, my readers, keep buying them, I will keep writing them.
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ABOUT JERICHO'S FALL
Thursday July 2, 2009
A reporter asked me about my decision to write, in Jericho's Fall, a novel with a protagonist not a member of what I have called in my other novels "the darker nation." A couple of reviewers have also commented that my main character, Beck DeForde, is white. ...
Posted by Stephen Carter at 01:55pm
Recommendations
Friday June 19, 2009
I will be using this blog mainly to recommend books by others – or, occasionally, to criticize them. And, yes, I am well aware of the marketing principles that advise against this. But I love books generally, and hope you will buy plenty of them, whether mine or someone else’s. ...
Posted by Stephen Carter at 05:22pm
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