Larry Beinhart
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Larry Beinhart is an America novelist, columnist, and blogger. He is best known as the author of the political and detective novel American Hero, which was adapted into the political-parody film Wag the Dog.
BiographyEdit
Beinhart has indicated that an early inspiration was the works of George Bernard Shaw, who besides his writing skills and wit, "created dramas out of ideas". By this dictum, Beinhart seeks to "create situations in which ideas - about God, why we go to war, who gets the money, how politics work, what the media actually does, about science and morality - are challenged by circumstances".<ref name="Autobio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Beinhart spent two years at Wadham College in Oxford, England. He is the recipient of a Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. His No One Rides for Free (1986) received a 1987 Edgar Award.<ref name="Fantastic Fiction">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Beinhart has been a columnist for Al Jazeera since October 2016,<ref name="Al Jazeera">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at Alternet 2005-2012,<ref name="Alternet">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and had a blog at The Huffington Post in 2011.<ref name=HuffPost>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His principal concerns are the US economy and politics, taxes, and the rising inequalities moving into the age of Trump.<ref name="Al Jazeera"/><ref name=HuffPost/> Beinhart joined the Al Jazeera TV series Empire as a behind-the-scenes consultant for the 2013 episode "Empire of Secrets" about the clandestine world of government secrets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Film adaptionsEdit
Wag the Dog (1997) was directed by Barry Levinson; it starred Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst, Woody Harrelson, and Willie Nelson. The New Yorker called the novel "a tour de force of satirical fiction."
His novel Salvation Boulevard, was adapted as a film and released in 2011. It features Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ed Harris, and Jim Gaffigan. The director is George Ratliff, the producers are Cathy Schulman and Celine Rattray.<ref name="Entourage">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Beinhart resides in Woodstock, New York, with his wife and two children. He is a keen skier and sometime instructor at Hunter Mountain in New York State.<ref name="Entourage"/><ref name="Fantastic Fiction"/>
Selected worksEdit
NovelsEdit
- No One Rides For Free (1986)*<ref name="Fantastic Fiction"/>
- You Get What You Pay For (1988)*
- Foreign Exchange (1992)*
- American Hero (1993) (reissued as Wag the Dog: A Novel)
- The Librarian (2004)
- Salvation Boulevard (2008)
- The Tony Cassella Mysteries (omnibus) (2013)*
- Zombie Pharm (2021)
- The Deal Goes Down (2022)
* Tony Cassella series
Non-fictionEdit
- How to Write a Mystery (1996)
- Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin (2005) PublicAffairs, Template:ISBN
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Larry Beinhart at Al Jazeera
- Larry Beinhart's blog at The Huffington Post
- Larry Beinhart: Federal Confidential at Buzzflash
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- Mandalay finds 'Salvation Boulevard' Ratliff to write, direct Beinhart adaptation By Michael Fleming, Variety, June 23, 2008.