Today's Blog of the Day is Roger L. Simon
Roger is an accomplished mystery novelist and screen writer. Before he started the blog, I knew his movie The Big Fix, which starred Richard Dreyfuss as '60s radical turned private-eye Moses Wine. He also received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay adaptation of Enemies: A Love Story from the Isaac Bashvis Singer novel. (Having both read the book and seen the movie, I can say it was a terrific screen rendition of a terrific book)
A self-described former radical-liberal who experienced an "emotional dislocation" on September 11 and has since re-evaluated some of his beliefs and alliances, Roger writes a thought-provoking blog that is always full of insights and a pleasure to read.
Roger earns his Blog of the Day Award today of all days, because I just finished reading his latest Moses Wine novel Director's Cut. It is a very clever and funny book, part post-9/11 mystery involving terrorists, and part satire of the independent film business. The take on the independent film world is drawn heavily from his own experience (see this interview and this essay) I won't give a full review as others have (here and here, for example) All I'll say is if you're going to read any mysteries this summer, Director's Cut should be at the top of your list. And when you're done, you're going to feel inspired to go catch up on all of the earlier Moses Wine tales you might have missed.
Keep up the good work, Roger, and if you're ever in Seattle, I'll be honored to buy you a beer or other beverage of you're choice.
[More information on the Shark Blog's Blog of the Day tradition is here]
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 21, 2003 07:00 AM