Monday, April 17, 2006

The Debate Continues!: Le Carre or McCarry?


A great weekend for THE LAST SUPPER by Charles McCarry as he continues to gather up comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carre. From the LA Times: "...Does this make him Le Carré's equal? No, I think it makes him his superior."

Not to mention a nice feature in Publishers Weekly, with an interview with Overlook Press big man Peter Mayer. Enjoy!

"Most people flipping through the April 2 edition of the New York Times Book Review probably didn't think twice when they saw a nearly full-page review of an espionage thriller by cult favorite author Charles McCarry. But if they had looked closer, they would have noticed that the book was a 20+-year-old novel by a writer whose work, just a few years ago, was almost entirely out of print.

Mayer believes that publishing McCarry's out-of-print books on the heels of Old Boys drummed up interest in the author on the whole. "People were waiting for Charles McCarry to write again," he said. "Writers sometimes lose their appeal to large publishers and [those publishers] start to take them for granted. But if you can put the full energy of a small company behind that author, something happens."
--Jim

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