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A long, winding road brought me to novels. There was a fling with Cornell's Ph.D program in English that got me an M.A. in Theater instead. There was a longer and much sexier run through alternative journalism, from the East Village Eye in New York to the L.A. Weekly in Los Angeles. At the Weekly I mostly reviewed movies, but also covered theater, performance art, music, books, local events, politics -- and ended up with a regular column called "Weird Sister." At some point I got exhausted with movies and newspapers. It pushed me to write a novel, The Ticket Out, a murder story based on my experiences as a Hollywood fringe-dweller. The second novel is equally personal. I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, the heart of the Canadian oil ...more

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THE GREATEST CHASE IN DETECTIVE FICTION

At Vroman's in Pasadena, a great question from the audience prompted this riff about how fossil fuels -- from coal to oil -- are essential for a staple of crime stories, the high-speed chase.

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	The Ticket Out 3.35 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet

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Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)

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“he never crossed any lines. He was a subtle and old-fashioned sexist; he didn’t know how to take women seriously but they continued to delight him. And”
― Helen Knode, The Ticket Out: A Crime Novel

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