Alan Furst: 6/7/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

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🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Alan Furst is the bestselling author of Midnight in Europe, Night Soldiers, and Spies of the Balkans. His latest book, A Hero of France, is out now and available by clicking here. Today, Alan discusses how he first came about creating his own fictional world in the tradition of William Faulkner and William Kennedy (2:00), the question he asked himself which opened him up as a writer (10:30), and the idea of a certain kind of heroism in his books (24:00). Plus, Alan talks about why he hasn’t returned to France in years (34:00) and the creative routine he established to become a master of historical spy fiction (44:00). The Moment is brought to you by Open Account, a podcast that gets personal about making, losing, and living with money. Created by Umpqua Bank and hosted by SuChin Pak, download and subscribe to Open Account wherever you get your podcasts. And by FreshBooks. Small business owners, FreshBooks wants to make dealing with your day-to-day paperwork ridiculously simple and quick. For your 30-day free trial, and all the simple and quick cloud accounting you can handle, go to FreshBooks.com/Moment and enter “Moment” in the “how did you hear about us” section. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Open Account, a podcast that gets personal about making, losing, and living with money.
0:06.5	Created by Omqua Bank and hosted by Succian Pac, download and subscribe to Open Account wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.8	And by Fresh Books, small business owners.
0:17.3	Fresh Books wants to make dealing with your day-to-day paperwork ridiculously simple and
0:21.4	quick.
0:22.4	For your free 30 day trial
0:25.0	and all the simple and quick cloud accounting
0:26.9	you can handle, go to freshbooks.
0:29.0	com forward slash moment and enter moment
0:31.8	in the How Did You hear about us section.
0:33.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:36.5	Hey this is the moment. I'm Brian Coppelman. Thanks for listening. Today's
0:47.5	guest is the novelist Alan First. There are not many authors who've written as many books as Mr. First
0:54.8	about whom I can say I have read all of them, but I can. I've read all 12 of the books
1:01.6	that you've written. Starting and when did you publish the first of these?
1:04.0	The first of them was night soldiers and I believe it was the late 80s when I published it.
1:10.0	And I probably, the first one I read I think was a world at night about Jean-Kissant and then I went back caught up and now have read all including your most recent book which is a hero of France.
1:25.0	Thanks so much for being here and talking about us.
1:28.0	My pleasure. Thank you for having me.
1:29.0	I'll tell you, well I'm excited and a little bit nervous about this because I want to do this work
1:33.0	justice because I saw that you said this in some interview somewhere or in some bio but I do
1:38.3	think it's true that you've been in essentially at work creating one fictional world all this time.
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