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Dark End of the Street Release

I haven’t blogged or written on my website in a very long time and I apologize. It just got away from me. But I’m back and I’m going to try and keep this going. So, first off, TONIGHT is the launch party for “THE DARK Read more…
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Launch Party for “Dark End of the Street”

When: May 11, 2010 – 7:00PM Where: The Center for Fiction 17 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017 (212) 755-6710 View Larger Map
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Tagged Dark End of the Street, launch party
The Murder Notebook Trade Paperback Is Here!

When NYPD forensic artist Nate Rodriguez is called in to identify the skull of a “John Doe” burned beyond recognition it is just the beginning. As more bodies turn up he is the only one who sees a common thread among them, but Nate has Read more…
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Catching Up

I don’t know how it happened, how it ever happens, how the time speeds by and you barely notice. It’s winter in New York. Last I looked it was summer. Next it will be spring and I will have a new book out, THE MURDER Read more…
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Tagged Emotional Damage, Exhibitions, Nate Rodriguez, PTSD, The Murder Notebook, Trauma, Warhol series
Santlofer’s Novel More Graphic Than Most – USA Today

By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY Self-portraits aren’t unusual — unless the artist is using himself as the model for a corpse. In Anatomy of Fear (William Morrow, $24.95), author and artist Jonathan Santlofer does just that. “It is a little creepy,” concedes Santlofer, whose genre-defying, Read more…
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A Writing Life Imitates Art – Publishers Weekly

By Karen Holt Jonathan Santlofer writes his heroes tall. “I’m 5’7″ so I like to compensate,” he says. And he writes them brave, something else he insists he’s not. “I’m a big baby. If I see a knife on the table, I think it’s going Read more…
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Tagged Anatomy of Fear, art, drawings, Nate Rodriguez, studio
Mask of the Critic – Guernica – Interview with Peter Schjeldahl and Jonathan Santlofer

Peter Schjeldahl and Jonathan Santlofer have been fixtures in the art world for decades, yet before Guernica brought them together for the “impromptu” conversation that follows, they’d never met. The art critic for The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl was born in Fargo, North Dakota, settled Read more…
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Tagged art criticism, Guernica, Peter Schjeldahl, writing
An Artistic Mystery – New York City Daily News

by Deidre Stein Greben Breezing down the LIE with no traffic may sound like the stuff of fiction, and in Jonathan Santlofer’s new thriller, “The Killing Art,” it is. The road trip in question, from Manhattan to the tony hamlets of the East End, occurs Read more…
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Tagged inspiration, Lon Island, Murder Mysteries, The Killing Art, villians
A Painter Writes of Murder Among the Abstract Expressionists – The New York Times

By Carol Kino Can artists control the way history records them? How do some manipulate their legends – and what fate befalls those who can’t, or who loathe the very idea? Such questions, fodder for much contemporary art gossip and art historical research, fuel “The Read more…
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Tagged Abstract Expressionist, Interview, studio, The New York Times
Brush With Death – Slate Magazine

by Carol Kino There’s a terrific art world novel out this season, and it isn’t Updike’s. American art novels tend to come in two varieties—commercial and literary. The commercial kind tends to focus on chic-but-sleazy openings and socializing, which are undoubtedly the most vapid, least Read more…
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Tagged Abstract Expressionist, art novels, Carol Kino, character development, cliches, criticism, John Updike, potboilers, Slate Magazine