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NEWS NEW! Read David's recent blog postings, "The Neighbor Who Vanished, or Didn't" and "Note to Self: Never Edit While Blind with Grief" on Red Room.
David published a short story titled "The Axiom of Choice," which appeared in The Strand, Issue XXVII 2009. The website Mathematical Fiction, devoted to the portrayal of mathematicians in fiction, offered a fascinating précis here. to El Salvador's President 
Ron Carver, Assistant Director of the Port Division, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (right), hands a personally dedicated copy of Blood of Paradise to El Salvador's new president, Mauricio Funes (left). For the whole story, see my recent Commentary. PUBLICATIONS
The latest serial audio thriller from Audible.com is now available. The title is The Copper Bracelet, and it again contains a chapter from David. Jeffrey Deaver provided the first and last chapters, as he did with its predecessor, The Chopin Manuscript, with additional contributions from David Hewson, Brett Battles, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, David Liss, Gayle Lynds, Linda Barnes, P.J. Parrish, James Phelan, Jon Land, Lisa Scottoline and Jenny Siler. Once again the book is being read by the incomparable Alfred Molina. For more info, click here. NEW! David's short story Pretty Little Parasite, which originally appeared in Las Vegas Noir (Akashic Press), has been re-issued in Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin), edited by Jeffrey Deaver and Otto Penzler. It also includes stories by Alice Munro, James Lee Burke, Alafair Burke, Michael Connelly, Chuck Hogan, Joyce Carol Oates, and a notable host of others. David's short story Dead by Christmas appears in Phoenix Noir (Akashic Press), which also includes stories by Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin (who also edited the anthology), Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, Diana Gabaldon, and Stella Pope Duarte. A launch party (with David in attendance) was held at Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ in October of 2009.  |
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