Harlan Coben

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

Harlan Coben’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

And I wrote, I started writing a novel.

Never written a short story in my life.

I started writing a novel about this really cool tour guide, American young tour guide who was taking care of these annoying clients.

Called the book Aim to Please.

I came back to the States and actually wanted to finish it.

I went to a bunch of professors at my college and I was like, can I do this as some kind of independent study?

All of them kind of said, no, you've never taken even an English class here.

So I wrote it on my own.

And I think I just found my thing.

I just loved doing it, and I just felt like I was good at it.

I wrote an entire novel my senior year of college.

Wow, so you're 20 or 21.

That's the range.

I wrote an entire—it was terrible.

It was a terrible novel, so it wasn't really good.

I still have it someplace.

But I got the bug from that, the virus from that.

And once I had that, I never let go of it.

I started to write more.

Did you share it to anybody?

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