On the eve of publication of my new novel, The Flinch Factor, I sat down for an interview with Jeanette Cooperman of St. Louis Magazine. Here is the result.

In my recent musings on unreliable narrators in literature and the law, I kept coming across the term “the Rashomon Effect.” Indeed, Google that term and you will get links to fascinating essays in a variety of fields ranging from psychology to anthropology to sociology to historical interpretations to the law. Stated simply, the “Rashomon effect” is…

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let us now consider the unreliable narrator. Within the field of literature, the “unreliable narrator” is a storyteller who violates our trust. Most readers start a book quite literally taking the narrator at his word.  The unreliable narrator, however, is a storyteller who provides us with inaccurate or incomplete…