Larry Beinhart is an America novelist, columnist, and blogger. He is best known as the author of the political and detective novel American Hero, which was adapted into the political-parody film Wag the Dog.
Biography
editBeinhart has indicated that an early inspiration was the works of George Bernard Shaw, who besides his writing skills and wit, "created dramas out of ideas". By this dictum, Beinhart seeks to "create situations in which ideas - about God, why we go to war, who gets the money, how politics work, what the media actually does, about science and morality - are challenged by circumstances".[1]
Beinhart spent two years at Wadham College in Oxford, England. He is the recipient of a Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. His No One Rides for Free (1986) received a 1987 Edgar Award.[2]
Beinhart has been a columnist for Al Jazeera since October 2016,[3] at Alternet 2005-2012,[4] and had a blog at The Huffington Post in 2011.[5] His principal concerns are the US economy and politics, taxes, and the rising inequalities moving into the age of Trump.[3][5] Beinhart joined the Al Jazeera TV series Empire as a behind-the-scenes consultant for the 2013 episode "Empire of Secrets" about the clandestine world of government secrets.[6]
Film adaptions
editWag the Dog (1997) was directed by Barry Levinson; it starred Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Denis Leary, Kirsten Dunst, Woody Harrelson, and Willie Nelson. The New Yorker called the novel "a tour de force of satirical fiction."
His novel Salvation Boulevard, was adapted as a film and released in 2011. It features Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei, Isabelle Fuhrman, Ed Harris, and Jim Gaffigan. The director is George Ratliff, the producers are Cathy Schulman and Celine Rattray.[7]
Personal life
editBeinhart resides in Woodstock, New York, with his wife and two children. He is a keen skier and sometime instructor at Hunter Mountain in New York State.[7][2]
Selected works
editNovels
edit- No One Rides For Free (1986)*[2]
- You Get What You Pay For (1988)*
- Foreign Exchange (1992)*
- American Hero (1993) (reissued as Wag the Dog: A Novel)
- The Librarian (2004)
- Salvation Boulevard (2008)
- The Tony Cassella Mysteries (omnibus) (2013)*
- The Deal Goes Down (2022)
* Tony Cassella series
Non-fiction
edit- How to Write a Mystery (1996)
- Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin (2005) PublicAffairs, ISBN 1-56858-716-3
References
edit- ^ "Larry Beinhart - Author". Larry Beinhart. Archived from the original on June 11, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Larry Beinhart". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ a b "Larry Beinhart". Al Jazeera. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "Stories by Larry Beinhart". Alternet. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ a b "Larry Beinhart's blog". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ Marwan Bishara and Larry Beinhart (August 20, 2013). "Empire of Secrets: Behind-the-scenes". Al Jazeera. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ a b Beinhart, Larry (May 25, 2011). "Sundance: Lessons From Entourage". HuffPost blog. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
External links
edit
- Official website
- Larry Beinhart on Facebook
- Larry Beinhart at Al Jazeera
- Larry Beinhart's blog at The Huffington Post
- Larry Beinhart: Federal Confidential at Buzzflash
- Larry Beinhart at IMDb
- Mandalay finds 'Salvation Boulevard' Ratliff to write, direct Beinhart adaptation By Michael Fleming, Variety, June 23, 2008.