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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It's called Plot Twist, a memoir on writing, where I sort of did what Stephen King did with On Writing or Anne Lamott did, where it's a book on how to write mixed in with a memoir from my life, some of the stuff we're talking about, the story of my grandfather disappearing for two years, my parents' death,
Things like the nuclear missile base I mentioned, all these things are in the book and how they made me write, how those things, my real life ended up showing up in the fiction and how I write.
So no, I don't, there's not a formula other than writing.
I'm always trying to make it suspenseful and a thriller.
One of my favorite writers, a man named Elmore Leonard, who wrote The Big Short, maybe people remember that movie and some other greats.
He had a great writing advice where he said, I try to cut out all the parts you'd normally skip.
I love that.
And I write like that.
I write like there's a knife against my throat and if I bore you, you're gonna kill me.
I write like we are cavemen sitting around a fire.
And if I bore you, someone's going to pick up a big rock and hit me over the head with it, and someone's going to take my place.
I write with that kind of energy and that kind of intensity.
But I've read them.
I don't really understand all these three-act structure stuff.
I never follow any of that.
In fact, I try to go against the grain.
A lot of what I write is like, what have I seen before?
How can I change it around to be something slightly different?
But do you know the end of the beginning?
I do know the end.
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