The Revival is the third installment in the Holly Goforth series. Holly's privileged boarding school life ended and her difficult initiation into adulthood began in Book One: The Stalking. In Book Two: The Revenge, Holly avenged betrayal by her first lover, Christopher, and discovered the shocking truth that her wealthy grandmother kept secret for so long. She was pulled into the deadly network of meth dealing and abuse in South Florida as she tried to save her brother from a drug habit. At the same time, she had to help her mother win a battle against breast cancer. Now, in The Revival,...

As Saul Bellow said, "Fiction is the higher autobiography." This "memoir" is a work of fictionalized fact. I have used fiction to tell the truth in order to avoid negative consequences. It's true that I have endured the writing life documented here. I toiled as you do under the autocrat's hammer. I routinely drifted off into homicidal dreams, but in fact I never murdered anyone. All else is true. The book characterizes people I have known and jobs I have held as I toiled away in high school and college, just like you, as well as in newspaper and magazine publishing, advertising, and...