Presumed Innocent – Michael A. Kahn

Relaxing With Some Tense Thoughts

Posted on June 12, 2017July 2, 2017 by Michael Kahn

My epiphany occurred as I read an interview of John Updike from nearly a half century ago. Ah, I said to myself, nodding my head, so that’s why I did it. The “it” was doing something I’d never before done in all of my prior novels and short stories. Each of those prior works, like the…

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An Evening with Scott Turow–November 6th at 7:30 PM

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Michael Kahn

I have been a fan of Scott Turow and his writings ever since publication of his first book, One L, a work of nonfiction subtitled The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School. That book came out during my own first year at Harvard Law School. As you can imagine, I was hardly…

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Mysteries and the Unreliable Narrator

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Michael Kahn

As a trial lawyer by day and an author by night, I don’t find the “unreliable narrator” an abstract concept. Indeed, I have been mulling over the subject for awhile. I have already posted some musings on this website, but I realized that the topic is particularly relevant to those of us who write or read mystery novels….

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