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Essays by Tom Rosenstiel that touch on issues behind the books or about the writing process itself and other media about his books.
Constance Sayers and Tom Rosenstiel have written about witches and detectives, respectively. They're keeping their day jobs.
Of the myriad crises threatening journalism — and therefore democracy — one challenge is almost invisible. For a host of reasons, journalists today understand less of the truth about the people they’re covering.
When I shifted from writing nonfiction books to novels, something unexpected happened. People began to be more inclined to tell me the truth, now I was willing to make things up.
It’s presidential primary season — and two political parties are at war with each other. Sound familiar? Into this modern maelstrom steps a centrist senator and V.P. pick who hires Rosenstiel’s recurring characters, Peter Rena and Randi Brooks, to investigate a frightening threat.
I started writing political thrillers about Washington. I work hard to make these books plausible and revealing. And inevitably, people pose the same question: How can you possibly write fiction about politics when the news itself reads like dystopian fiction?
Journalists are in the business of finding facts and telling secrets, and these aren’t the acts that move a story of Washington intrigue forward.
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“Liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with the other departments.” -Alexander Hamilton
The novel was my escape from the world of real news, a chance to lose myself in my imagination. But the real world was now encroaching on my make-believe Washington. And it was eerie.
Tom Rosenstiel — head of the American Press Institute — has written a novel about a political fixer who gets the biggest job of his career: Sanitizing a controversial Supreme Court nominee. Interview on Weekend Edition Saturday.
Anthony Franze talks to Tom Rosenstiel over email about the Supreme Court, modern politics and journalism, and his gripping debut novel.
Rosenstiel has real-world experience in the sausage factory of Washington politics, and it shows—every twist and turn feels entirely plausible, even as the book races toward a surprising ending.
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Written with razor-sharp political insight and heart-pounding action, Shining City is a hugely impressive debut that announces a major new talent.
Washington insider and nonfiction author Rosenstiel makes his fiction debut with 'Shining City,' about the nomination of a Supreme Court justice and the hunt for a serial killer.