Episode #313 “In
the Dustbin of History”
Broadcasting Feb 3,
2014, NYC Life at 9:30 pm
We are resuming our series for the first time this year with an episode on historical thrillers. Frank
Debonair notices that the dustbins of history are replete with losers, merely
because the winners of conflicts get to write the history books and dispose of
their opponents in the dustbins of history. But
Frank is interested in history writers, their weight, how their narration
shapes consciousness and society, and how it becomes the material for countless
thrillers. What right do they have
to question the past? Can their audacity teach us something? Or can history
first of all teach us anything?
The Interview segments
shot at Thriller Fest include Steve Berry, Alan Topol, Greg Dinallo, and
Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal, and Andrew Kaplan.
For the Pick of the
Week, Frank Debonair settles for an anthology special. He features Elena Shubina, editor of “Read
Russia;” Otto Penzler, for “Kwik
Krimes,” Gardner Dozois, for “The Year’s Best Science Fiction,”
and David Henry Sterry & R.J. Martin Jr., for “Johns, Marks, Tricks, and
Chickenhawks.”
The Book Case Team
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