Dana here–The Authors Guild is unquestionably the biggest bang you can get for your writing buck. Doug Preston tells us why. [reprinted by permission] In talking to some of you, I’ve discovered that not everyone is awareof the extensive benefits that come with Guild membership. Pleasetake a moment to look through the list, because there…
If you have not yet read this book, obviously I haven’t beaten you over the head with it hard enough. Author and journalist Douglas Preston talks his way into an expedition to Honduras to find a fabled lost city, and finds a lot more than he bargained for. Some excerpts from my LARB review: Fifteen…
The Los Angeles Review of Books asked me to amp up my Goodreads review of Douglas Preston’s fabulous book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, for publication on their site. I was happy to comply. To read my review in full, click here. Spoiler alert: I loved it.
For centuries Hondurans have told their children the myth of the Lost City of the Monkey God, but myths are often rooted in fact, and in the early Oughts cinematographer and inveterate searcher for lost cities Steve Elkins starts looking for it. National Geographic/New Yorker writer and novelist Douglas Preston, in the way nosy journalists…
Read more At the end of that first chapter he writes “I paid attention. I really did.”