“After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, “Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - 'The Wall… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
At first glance, the story of the Lusitania doesn't seem like the sort of thing I would take on. I usually like… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I think. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. "I have all my… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future,” he… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to reread 'War and Peace' - I've read it three times - I feel as though I've… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I've heard from the movie marketplace that James Cameron did such a killer job with 'Titanic' that it's almost impossible to do anything better. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I also feel that it just about… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,” — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
