Vince Mancini of UPROXX put Season Two of THE PLOT THICKENS [The Devil’s Candy] on his Top Ten list for 2021.   Who knew that my pack-rat tendencies, to save all those old recordings, would yield such a great experience. You can read Vince’s review here.

Reggie Ugwu, who writes about podcasts for The NY Times, wrote an insightful, lovely story about the making of…

Creating this podcast with Campside Media and TCM has been an incredible experience. Here’s a Q&A from Classic Couple, a blog dedicated to classic movies.

Shepherd.com, a new book referral site, asks authors to recommend books on a subject they’ve written about. An Innocent Bystander led me to these suggestions for deeper understanding into the cross-currents of politics and history that has made conflict the status quo.

Fifteen-minute Film Fanatics is a smart and entertaining podcast by Dan Moran, who teaches at Rutgers University, and Mike Takla. They invited me to talk about The Devil’s Candy, my book about the production of Brian De Palma’s Bonfire of the Vanities.  I had a lot of fun talking to Dan and Mike and hope you enjoy listening in. Here’s the link.

AVENUE MAGAZINE   asked me to revisit The Royal Tenebaums twenty years alter, which led to a delightful excursion through Wes Anderson’s movies.

Town and Country asked me to reflect on the movie, published in the Dec. 14, 2020 edition of the magazine.  That same day the AV Club published responses to its annual question, “What Great non-2020 books did you read this year?” Happy to say, Devil’s Candy made the list! On Dec. 11, 2020, The Guardian included Devil’s Candy among 10 of the best books about film. GQ included the book in its Dec. 21 roundup of “The 28 Cultural Objects That Helped You Survive 2020.” And Yahoo Entertainment offered a lengthy recap of “Bonfire” and “Devil’s Candy” on Dec. 21, 2020. On April 2, 2021 The Guardian published an article about “Devil’s Candy.”  There are links to all these articles in the Press section of my website.

Little, Brown is offering a special one-day e-book promotion through online booksellers, offering AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER for just $2.99!

Thank you Claire Finkelstein ( CERL founder and Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy) for inviting me! You can watch the discussion here with Claire and Sean P. Carter, an attorney who represents families of 9/11 victims pursuing claims against Saudi Arabia.

“Author Julie Salamon brings new dimensions to Leon Klinghoffer’s murder on the Achille Lauro”–interview with Joanne Palmer.

 

“In her riveting book, Salamon gives the perspective of many of the key players, including one of the terrorists, and the wife of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian American whose was killed in his California office — possibly as a form of retribution for Klinghoffer’s murder. In a phone interview, she spoke about some of the complexities of her book.”–Q&A with Alan Zeitlin

Book TV will air Julie’s presentation at the Philadelphia Free Library that took place on July 16, 2019, click here to watch

“In a book that reads like a spy thriller and a closely-observed narrative of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Julie Salamon asserts that Klinghoffer was shot not because he was a Jew but because he was an American. “An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer” (Little, Brown) is based on Salamon’s access to newly-unclassified material and interviews with many of the key figures who are still alive — including several who hadn’t spoken out previously,” Sandee Brawasky,  Arts and Culture Editor [Click here for full review]

“Salamon provides a 360-degree view of the tragic, endless cycle of the killing of innocents.”

“An Innocent Bystander” tells the awful story of Palestinian terrorists hijacking an Italian cruise ship. It details how one shot an elderly American invalid and threw him overboard.It also explains how competing governments, complicated treaties and outright lies kept the four attackers from ever facing American justice……Julie Salamon strives to be scrupulously fair. Her book focuses not only on the captives but also on the captors….”