Post by Katherine Dunn

Every weekday morning in April 1996, Bruce Feirstein woke up in a hotel room across from Marylebone station in London, read the newspapers, and spent the day thinking about how to blow things up. This was, to be clear, an actual job. Though Feirstein was an American journalist in his mid-40s, and a contributing writer at Vanity Fair, he was quickly becoming better known for his other gig: writing screenplays for James Bond movies. His first, 1995’s Pierce Brosnan-fronted GoldenEye, was a box office smash. The task now was to dream up the scheming villains, daring romance, and wild action sequences of the follow-up: the 1997 blockbuster Tomorrow Never Dies. (More in the link below . . . and thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered my book!)