I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers. ALAN FURST GenreRaedWriter
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience. ALAN FURST AudienceExpectHaveLikeLotRead
I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past. ALAN FURST FortyJustRaedThirtyWritten
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated. ALAN FURST ConsolationSophisticatedWhatWrite
