{"id":4446,"date":"2022-04-30T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/author-don-winslow-on-why-hes-retiring-from-writing-and-turning-his-attention-to-activism\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T21:40:32","slug":"author-don-winslow-on-why-hes-retiring-from-writing-and-turning-his-attention-to-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=4446","title":{"rendered":"Author Don Winslow on why he&#8217;s retiring from writing and turning his attention to activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/swPsW-zKLgc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Crime novelist Don Winslow has authored more than 20 acclaimed international bestsellers, including \u201cThe Border,\u201d \u201cSavages\u201d and \u201cThe Cartel.\u201d His latest is \u201cCity on Fire,&#8221; the first in a trilogy. It&#8217;s a gritty gangster saga inspired by the mobsters of his Rhode Island home town and, Winslow says, by Homer\u2019s \u201cIliad.\u201d Geoff Bennett spoke with Winslow this week as he was traveling on his book tour.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime novelist Don Winslow has authored more than 20 acclaimed international bestsellers, including \u201cThe Border,\u201d \u201cSavages\u201d and \u201cThe Cartel.\u201d His latest is \u201cCity on Fire,&#8221; the first in a trilogy. It&#8217;s a gritty gangster saga inspired by the mobsters of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[7940,8297,8568,8564,8571,8567,8563,8570,8566,8569,8565],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-arts-and-culture-news","tag-author","tag-author-don-winslow","tag-book-tour","tag-crime-novels","tag-don-winslow","tag-don-winslow-book-tour","tag-mystery-novels","tag-political-activist","tag-true-crime-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}