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Andrew Diamond

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Andrew Diamond writes mystery, crime, noir, and an occasional comedy. His books feature cinematic prose, strong characterization, twisting plots, and dark humor. Amazon editors named Impala a best of the month mystery, and IndieReader named it to their best of 2016 list. Impala also won the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal for mystery and the 24th Annual Writer’s Digest award for genre fiction.

Gate 76 was named named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018, while BestThrillers.com selected both Gate 76 (2018) and To Hell with Johnny Manic (2019) to their best of the year lists. The Sellout (2024) won the IndieReader Discovery Award for humor.

His next book, Grid Zero, will be available on June 30, 2025.

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Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism is part of MIT Press’ Essential Knowledge Series, which includes books about citizenship, waves and the mind-body problem as well a number of less essential topics such as cloud computing, open access and school choice. If I had read the full list of “Essential Knowledge” titles, I might have been more prepared for what this book had to offer. I was expecting something like

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James Ross’ country noir, They Don’t Dance Much, published in 1940, takes place in and around Corinth, North Carolina, around the year 1939. Prohibition has ended, the Great Depression is in full swing, and many people, including the book’s protagoni ...more
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Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novel, Now Wait for Last Year, is set in the United States in the year 2055. Earth has been drawn into a centuries-old war between two alien species, the human-like ‘Starmen and the insect-like reegs. World government has consol ...more
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“It scares you to think of having someone else’s heart in your hands when you can’t even manage your own life. I know”
Andrew Diamond, Warren Lane

“I think an author who writes crappy novels should be punished by having to live inside the novel of an even crappier author”
Andrew Diamond, The Sellout

“An author is like a mafia boss. He's gotta shepherd a bunch of characters through a plot. He has to maintain control. Any gets outta line, they have to go”
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