Reading is fundamental.

Finally got my book back from a friend the other day so i figured this is a good of a time as any to give my favorite author some free pub. Colin Harrison has been an immediate favorite from the time i picked up his novel Manhattan Noturne. You can find all his shyts on amazon, but you oughta just hit up your local borders and drop that 8-10 bucks on the soft covers so i can keep reading. Here's his Wiki bio:

Colin Harrison (born 1960 in New York City) is an American author and editor.

Harrison is the author of seven novels, Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004, The Finder (2008), and Risk (2009). Four were selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. All are atmospheric novels of violence and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York.^[1]

His short nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Salon, Worth, and other publications. He lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine from 1989 until 2001 and since then has been an editor at Scribner.

At Scribner, Harrison edits both fiction and non-fiction. Among the writers he has worked with are Anthony Swofford, Ted Fishman, Craig Unger, Robert Ferrigno, and Chuck Hogan.^{[citation needed]}

Harrison attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA, 1986), Haverford College (BA, 1982), and Westtown School (1978), a coeducational Quaker boarding school, where his father, Earl Harrison, was headmaster.^{[citation needed]}

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