Diemert traces Greene's adaptation of nineteenth-century romance thrillers and classical detective stories into modern political thrillers as a means of presenting serious concerns in an engaging fashion. He argues that Greene's popular thrillers were in part a reaction to the high modernism of writers ...
Using interviews with authors and illustrators, this book asks: what makes a classic? How do you get a book published? What happens behind the scenes at a publishing firm? Will e-books mean paper books become a thing of the past? How do writers come up with their ideas in the first place?
