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

In other words, when I was in college, I don't really know, though.

I mean, I know now if my professors were right-wing or left-wing.

What we would do at Amherst College, which was a wonderful small college in Amherst, Massachusetts, we had, to give you an idea, we had

I think 450 kids per grade.

And while I was there, I lived next door to David Foster Wallace, who wrote The Infinite Jest, and my fraternity brother was Dan Brown, who wrote Da Vinci Code.

So I'm not even the biggest selling author in my own fraternity at a college with less than 400 people per grade.

So...

But what we were taught was we would read philosophies and theories and arguments, and then our job would be to defend them and tear them apart.

Didn't matter who they were.

Didn't matter if we loved them or hated them.

We had to defend them and look at them.

That's critical thinking.

And it's really important in writing.

I write twisty stuff.

I write very plot-heavy stuff.

very twisted, a lot of twists and turns and trying to fool you things.

And so I have to be able to see four or five steps ahead and come up with a lot of what ifs.

That's really what my job is, a lot of what ifs.

So I think that education really helped with that.

Well, it was interesting that we had a number of years apart.

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