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Date: Fall 2008
Hesh
Kestin is a recovering foreign correspondent who reported
on local wars, global business and exotic mayhem in Europe,
the Middle East and Africa for such publications as Forbes,
Newsday and the Jerusalem Post, and wrote
for US magazines as diverse as Playboy and Inc.
Cited by Media Guide for best foreign correspondence,
his work has garnered Clarion and National Headliner awards
and constant threats of reprisal. “If they don’t
wave a gun or call in the lawyers,” he says, “You’re
not doing your job.” Before hanging up his trench-coat
to return to his roots as a novelist he founded the Israeli
daily The Nation and the prize-winning expatriate
weekly The American, and wrote a non-fiction book,
21st-Century Management [Grove Atlantic], about
a major software company whose leadership is currently
in federal prison. Kestin now lives in the Hamptons, the
New York exurb where the greatest danger is being run
down by a Ferrari –and likes it that way. “In
fiction if someone pulls an AK-47 on you,” he explains,
“You just make sure it jams.” Set in World-War-II
Africa, Polynesia and Hollywood, the three novellas that
make up Based On A True Story–by turns comic
and tragic, erotic and violent, global and intensely personal—reveal
the roots of contemporary life in a world at war with
itself.
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