My Other Writing
Aug. 31, 2009
Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall
Ask a Bostonian to name the ugliest building in the city, and nine out of ten will say “City Hall.” (The tenth will say something rude to you. If he does neither of these things, he is no Bostonian.) But architects love the building as much as everyone else hates it, and in this case [...]
Tags: architecture
Aug. 27, 2009
Ten Views of the Combat Zone
Since it looks like this blog is going to be a permanent thing, I’m going to try to gather up some of my other writing here. I don’t do a lot of writing outside my novels, and what I do is mostly for book publicity. But some of it is worth a second look, I [...]
Tags: Combat Zone
Jul. 17, 2009
The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”
“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” is my favorite crime novel, a lean, gritty story set in a Boston that has long since vanished.
