Most frequently visited pages over the last twelve years of BenEastBooks
U.S. Consulate Attack: a Commemoration
On December 6th, 2004, I huddled with my colleagues beneath the hardline visa counter at the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah as a siren screamed overhead. Five terrorists planted bombs and sprayed gunfire across our compound. Ten years later, the Foreign Service Journal shared a moving reminder of friends and colleagues killed in the attack.
Review of Chris Belden’s satire about modern day writers conferences. Shriver might be called a book about a novelist who wrote a book called Goat Time which everybody seems to enjoy but nobody seems to have read, including not the author Shriver himself..
Ben served a 23-year career as a U.S. diplomat specialized in cross-cultural communication and telling America’s story to the world.
After 16 years in the Foreign Service, Ben returns to his training grounds with his sons, eight and ten, so they could begin their own indoctrination to the diplomatic life.
Publication announcement of Two Pumps for the Body Man, part soft-boiled noir, part literary satire. Two Pumps is an unserious look at a serious situation, a grim reminder that no matter how high the barricade, how sharp the razor wire, there is no front line to the War on Terror. And the enemy is everywhere, even within.
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