Jerry Jay Carroll
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Jerry Jay Carroll

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Born
in Manhattan, The United States
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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Evelyn Waugh, Tom Wolfe

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Jerry Jay Carroll is a former journalist nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize and the author of six novels, among them Top Dog, a NYT bestseller. Just out is End Times, an eschatological thriller about Good vs. Evil. Before that was another genre-bending roller-coaster ride called The Horror Writer about a wildly popular author Thom Hearn who who writes low-brow crap for the masses that get made into lucrative summer tent-pole splatter movies . Hearn is rich but the disdain of the literary world made him bitter. Then comes the invitation he gets with Wall Street whiz Carrie Alexander to a Davos-like conference of the high and mighty run by a charismatic man who can do anything better than anyone else. Hearn is the first to notice the weir ...more

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I'll bite, Jerry. Best theory I have read, other than everyone was asleep at the wheel, was that FDR and the joint chiefs did believe the Japanese would attack in response to the sanctions, but they thought they would strike south at the oil and rubber rich British, French, and Dutch colonies.
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Having spent the greater time of my life making a living in it, I can tell you these are grand times for the news business or what’s left of it. The news generally speaking is always bad for someone and at times for everyone. This is meat and drink for the journalist. Good news doesn’t sell because it is usually dull except for those lucky enough to make it--the lottery winner, the lost hiker who Read more of this blog post »
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“Our intentions have always been good - the best."
"That's what the road to hell is paved with.”
― Jerry Jay Carroll, The Horror Writer
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“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
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