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Stephen Greco is Editorial Director of InsideRisk and Editor-at-Large of the magazine Upstate Diary. He has contributed to and/or served as editor for Air Mail, Elle Décor, Interview, MTV online, New York, the New York Times, Opera News, Stagebill, Trace, and the Village Voice, among others. Greco is author of the novel Now and Yesterday (Kensington, 2014). His most recent novel, Such Good Friends, based on the friendship of Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill, published by Kensington in May, 2023.

For the stage, Greco has written Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, an orchestral-theatrical work from Giants Are Small, the partnership of Edouard Getaz and Doug Fitch, that premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2017. With Fitch, Greco has written the mu ...more

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How have your travels influenced your writing?

Stephen Greco Great question! I have been lucky enough to travel extensively as both a private tourist and a working cultural journalist, and in both cases I have t…moreGreat question! I have been lucky enough to travel extensively as both a private tourist and a working cultural journalist, and in both cases I have tried to bring to my travels as much curiosity about other people and other ways of living as possible. In fact, during the ‘70s and ‘80s, for the occasion of my first visits to scores of cities and archeological sites in Europe, South America, and Asia, my partner and I studied for months before, using travel guides, historical documents, scholarly texts, and the like, in the hope that such preparations would help sharpen our observations and dissolve the mental impediments we might have to our taking in new discoveries. The resulting travel experiences have proved surprising and thrilling--all of which helps a writer create characters and settings that express ideas memorably and bring a reader more deeply into the story.

When I was a kid from a small town in upstate New York, we would drive thirty or so miles to the nearest big town for visits to the dentist, optometrist, and such, and on those drives over winding county roads I’d see, from my backseat window, house after house that had stood there for twenty or fifty or a hundred years or more, and I’d be drawn into contemplation about the lives that were lived in all of those rooms and yards, on all of those porches. It was a kind of contemplation that unlocked the mind, that I think helped prepare me for unexpected pleasures in coming years, like a simple barbecue dinner at a modest, outdoor roadside stand, on a dusty road outside of Cairo, in the ‘80s; afternoon tea with an elegant, aging operaphile in a cramped, memento-filled, Soviet-era apartment block parlor in St. Petersburg, in the ‘90s; and a kamayan feast with the young creatives of an artist collective in a repurposed auto garage in the Cubao district of Manila, in the ‘00s…. (less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Stephen Greco Well, not so much a plot as a jumping-off point: One winter day in the 1980s, when I was working at Interview magazine, I was walking through SoHo aft…moreWell, not so much a plot as a jumping-off point: One winter day in the 1980s, when I was working at Interview magazine, I was walking through SoHo after a big snow storm, on my way to meet a friend for lunch, when a Buick-size chunk of ice fell from a sixth-story cornice and landed explosively right in front of me, in the space where I was about to take my next step. For a moment I was stunned; onlookers were stunned. But this was New York, and I was still standing, so we all just kinda kept going. The icy debris pile was so large that we had to walk around it. It was only after I was seated in the restaurant with my lunch companion, making light of having to wipe icy mush off my face and glasses, that I realized I'd perhaps narrowly missed being killed.(less)

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	Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill 3.59 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now and Yesterday 3.29 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Such Good Friends: Sneak Peek: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sperm Engine 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Culling 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men and Their Issues 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I feel lucky that it was voice and stage actor Erin Bennett who was selected to narrate the audiobook edition of Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill. Winner of several Earphones awards and Audie nominated, Erin has recorded over 250 books in multiple categories, for a wide range of major publishers. I am thrilled to say that Erin’s version of Such Good Friends brings the ch

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Stephen Greco answered Susan's question: How have your travels influenced your writing? Great question! I have been lucky enough to travel extensively as both a private tourist and a working cultural journalist, and in both cases I have tried to bring to my travels as much curiosity about other people and other ways of living as possibl See Full Answer
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