Derek B. Miller
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Dr. Derek B. Miller is an American novelist and political scientist. He is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy and is the author of six novels, including HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK.
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If Kyiv Falls. Top Story - February 2022.
IF KYIV FALLS Derek B. Miller 26 February, 2022 It's nine o'clock in the morning in Barelona, where I live, and ten o'clock in Kyiv, Ukraine where the lawful government of a peaceful country is under assault from the Russians who — we're told by Western intelligence agencies — want to kill the elected leader, kill his family, and install a new government; a Russian government that thinks that will be the end of the story.
By Derek B. Miller4 years ago in Journal
The Rise of Jewish-American Comedy During the Holocaust
I wrote a novel called How to Find Your Way in the Dark. The book became a 2021 Best Mystery Novel by The New York Times and also a 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist. While writing it I observed something. It was something big: an observation about a unique and influential human experience that, if we pay closer attention to it, might help us understand more about who we are and what it means to be alive.
By Derek B. Miller4 years ago in Geeks
Rethinking the Representation Debate in Literature
There is a pervasive argument today that writers should not represent other races, classes, genders, sexualities, disabilities, ideologies or religious persuasions in their fiction unless they have ‘authentic lived experience’ from which to draw. The argument is driven by a concern for social justice and a fear that institutions with power will continue, as they have in the past, to misrepresent people with less or no power to speak for themselves. It is a laudable agenda and a reasonable concern in the face of continued racial oppression, sexism and a litany of societal failures.
By Derek B. Miller4 years ago in Geeks
On releasing a new novel
I started writing fiction in 1996. I was four years out of college and had recently finished a masters degree. I had moved into a sublet in Geneva, Switzerland with plans to start a Ph.D. in the autumn. The flat was tiny and had a kitchen and a main room — by which I mean, another room. There was no internet to speak of (it was 1996), I didn't own a television, and I didn't know a soul in the city. I read books, went to the movies more than I care to admit, and I started writing fiction.
By Derek B. Miller4 years ago in Journal
