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Cormac Millar's Blog: December 2006
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Saturday, December 23, 2006. Posted by Cormac at 2:59 AM. Monday, December 11, 2006. FASCIST PIG PASSES ON. The corpulent corpus of Henry Kissinger, Pinochet's erstwhile puppet-master, is 83 and still apparently alive. Eating, drinking, sleeping, dressing - that sort of thing. It would be difficult. Augusto lacked charm. Posted by Cormac at 3:21 PM. I teach Italian for a living, and write fiction in my non-existent free time. Two crime novels published as Cormac Millar. View my complete profile.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: April 2010
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Friday, April 30, 2010. Google has now hidden my entire site. Click it today (30 April 2010) and you read "Google Error. Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server." Wiped off the face of the Internet. These blog posts, on the other hand, are working better than ever. The Google giveth, the Google taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Google. Posted by Cormac at 4:06 PM. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. But when I clicked on the link, there it wasn't. And isn't. D'OH! View my complete profile.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: December 2009
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Saturday, December 12, 2009. A Theorem on Power. The nature of power is such that decisions tend to get passed up the hierarchy to a level where nobody knows or cares what's involved. This partly explains the poor quality of decisions. A possible objection to the above: But didn't Stalin have a wonderful grasp of detail? I answer: Yes - the wrong detail. He was an excellent murderer, but a poor governor. Democracy provides little defence against these ills. People like the smack of firm government.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: April 2007
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Thursday, April 19, 2007. The Wrong Kind of Critic. I had to read 85 books, as a judge for the 2007 CBI Bisto Children's Book Awards. A weird experience. You hack your way through stuff that you'd normally put back on the bookseller's table. You also get to enter compelling worlds. You read great books, and some less so. Good ideas that didn't quite come off. Bad ideas that did. And what do you learn? At its best, young people's fiction has an amazing emotional reach. Posted by Cormac at 3:33 AM. I teach...
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Cormac Millar's Blog: October 2008
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Sunday, October 26, 2008. In his engaging, informative, unsettling collection of essays on recent history, Reappraisals. New York, The Penguin Press, 2007), Tony Judt passes judgment on a number of warmongers and charlatans, including nice Tony Blair. The importance of Tony's earnest tone is neatly caught by Judt: "He conveys an air of deep belief, but no one knows in quite what. He is not so much sincere as Sincere.". Posted by Cormac at 4:23 PM. Friday, October 17, 2008. On keeping one's own voice.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: February 2008
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Saturday, February 02, 2008. Michael Connelly's THE OVERLOOK: Classic crime novel with political insight. At a time when many novels (even good ones) are too long, too self-indulgent, Michael Connelly's THE OVERLOOK. Who can stop them? What means are justified? These very different stories show the demands of the individual against the needs of state security. And in their different ways, they show why we need fiction to understand what's going on. Posted by Cormac at 4:51 AM. View my complete profile.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: October 2006
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Sunday, October 15, 2006. Posted by Cormac at 3:58 PM. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. Penguin have scheduled the mass-market paperback of THE GROUNDS for 4 January 2007. A good day: our 33rd wedding anniversary. I'm one of the Irish generation that married young. Very young. Would do it again if she'd have me. The Cormac Millar site has recently gained a listing of more than fifty Irish crime writers. Advertising my competitors? There's plenty of room in cyberspace. Posted by Cormac at 4:43 PM.
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Cormac Millar's Blog: November 2006
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Thursday, November 30, 2006. MOST UPLIFTING PROMOTIONAL SITE. This posting has nothing to do with crime writing. Instead, it celebrates the romance of commerce. When baby Debbie Macomber was baptized, the candles flickered in the church. A sign of future greatness, says Debbie's mom on Debbie's site, www.debbiemacomber.com. The mugs, the t-shirts, the Gourmet Seattle Blend Ground Coffee (as drunk at the Lighthouse Restaurant in the Cedar Cove. And The Shop on Blossom Street. Posted by Cormac at 4:23 PM.
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Crime Fiction Ireland: January 2015
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About / Reviews Policy. Ian Banks to write another Rebus. Rebus is back. The maverick Scottish detective returns for a 20th novel (provisional title Even Dogs In The Wild. After author Ian Rankin's year-long sabbatical. The new book, to be released in autumn 2015, will also see the return of regular characters DI Siobhan Clarke and local gangster Ger Cafferty. Scotland’s favourite detective has already made three comebacks since he closed his first "final" case in Exit Music. Filed under: Author profiles.
