My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either abstruse, or unbelievably boring. |
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare |
Ordinary Heroes |
People are telling stories again. |
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. |
Postmodernism cost literature its audience. |
Presumed Innocent was filmed for the movies and The Burden of Proof was filmed for TV. |
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. |
The bottom line is, I am against capital punishment, despite my understanding of the visceral attraction it has for most Americans. |
The embrace of plot has allowed something like the Oprah book club phenomenon to emerge. |
The fact is that plot has brought out the best in me. |
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. |
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. |
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. |
Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses. |