Articles

Here’s some pieces I’ve written for various publications and websites over the years. Nonfiction is really freeing -- no plotting required, and as Lebowski said, "It’s all just, like, your opinion, man.”

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7 Essential Contagion Novels

CrimeReads · September 2019

Lethal microbes, zombie plagues, incompetent bureaucracies and other widespread pestilences

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The Big Idea with David Koepp

John Scalzi’s Whatever · September 2019

Koepp is here to tell you how the novel began, and why this time it is a novel, not a screenplay.

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The First Take Club: In Bruges

Empire · September 2019

David loves Martin McDonagh's work. So why had he never seen IN BRUGES?