Harlan Coben

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1,008 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Rosebud in NYC - Harlan Coben · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

My mother's was prolonged in cancer, and it was hard to watch.

And I don't recommend either, by the way, for the grieving.

I'm sure it was easier on my dad than my mom's death was on her, but for the grieving, it was tough.

So I got to sort of experience both a slow death and a fast death with a parent.

And what do you have from each of them in you today?

What did they give you?

Well, my mom was the storyteller.

And she's the one who, I think she wanted to be a writer.

I never actually saw her writing, but she talked about being a writer a lot.

And at least, you know, my parents never saw any of my success, which is also something that haunts me.

But she's got to see at least that I started to write in the beginning.

And she had the imagination.

It was wild.

I think the work ethic that it takes to do it is probably more my dad.

And I think one of the things that's most underrated in a writer, and we talked about this the other day at the Queen's Reading Room, was the importance of critical thinking and being empathetic, being able to take all sides of a position.

When I'm a writer, I'm often defending positions that I find abhorrent or that I don't agree with because that's my characters do.

And I have to defend them or make the person believe them because that's part of what writing is.

It's not everybody has my viewpoint.

I mean, it's a phrase that people use, but what does that mean?

Yes, it's sort of Socratic myth.

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