Christopher Bollen

New York

Editor-at-Large at Interview Magazine

Writer in New York. My latest novel A BEAUTIFUL CRIME is now out in paperback from Harper. For more frequent posts, find me on Instagram at @christbollen

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Articles

How I’ll Remember Edmund White

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Christopher Bollen

How I’ll remember Edmund White. In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon,” Edmund White wrote in City Boy. Five decades later, very little remains of the bare-knuckle, sexually overripe city that the author recalled in his memoirs and novels, but Ed still slept till noon. Whenever I sent him an email or a text in the morning, I knew I wouldn’t receive an answer until midday.
A love letter to The Carlyle, by novelist Christopher Bollen

1 month ago | ft.com | Christopher Bollen

In my careless youth, I wasn’t always so well-behaved in the world’s great hotels.
Inside Museum Reinhard Ernst designed by Fumihiko Maki

2 months ago | townandcountrymag.com | Christopher Bollen

A friend once joked that if you want to shut down a conversation with a chatty airplane seatmate, just tell them you’re an abstract painter. That vocation is presumably so incomprehensible and off-putting to the ordinary person it guarantees no follow-up questions. The 79-year-old German art collector Reinhard Ernst finds himself similarly lost for words when encountering an abstract painting, but the speechlessness stems from an entirely different source.
Review: When an elderly busybody/killer meets a young bad seed, ‘Havoc’ ensues

Mar 16, 2025 | thedailynewsonline.com | Maren Longbella |Christopher Bollen

It takes only a few pages for red flags to mount in Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller, “Havoc.”When we meet Maggie Burkhardt, the pandemic is raging and, for the previous three months, the 81-year-old has lived at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. kAm%96 (:D4@?D:?:E6 92D 366? EC2G6=:?8 6G6C D:?46 96C 9FD32?5 5:65 D:I J62CD 62C=:6C] $96’D DE2J65 :? `g 9@E6=D :? E92E E:>6[ 2?5 E96 #@J2= z2C?2< :D E96 @?=J @?6 D96 92D 4@?D:56C65 9@>6i “|J A=2? :D E@ DE2J 7@C6G6C]”k^AmkAm%96?
Review: When an elderly busybody/killer meets a young bad seed, ‘Havoc’ ensues

Mar 16, 2025 | thelcn.com | Maren Longbella |Christopher Bollen

It takes only a few pages for red flags to mount in Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller, “Havoc.”When we meet Maggie Burkhardt, the pandemic is raging and, for the previous three months, the 81-year-old has lived at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. kAm%96 (:D4@?D:?:E6 92D 366? EC2G6=:?8 6G6C D:?46 96C 9FD32?5 5:65 D:I J62CD 62C=:6C] $96’D DE2J65 :? `g 9@E6=D :? E92E E:>6[ 2?5 E96 #@J2= z2C?2< :D E96 @?=J @?6 D96 92D 4@?D:56C65 9@>6i “|J A=2? :D E@ DE2J 7@C6G6C]”k^AmkAm%96?
Natasha Lyonne: ‘I’ve Been Acting For 40 Years!’

Dec 29, 2024 | graziadaily.co.uk | Christopher Bollen

The multi-talented actress couldn’t find her place in Hollywood, so she created her own. What is one of Natasha Lyonne’s biggest fantasies? ‘To be a wallflower! The quiet mysterious woman in the corner who’s almost on the verge of disappearing. That’s always been my f-ing fantasy!’ Unfortunately, the role of wallflower was never in the cards for the 45-year-old actress – not by nature or by nurture.
When an elderly busybody/killer meets a young bad seed, 'Havoc' ensues

Dec 10, 2024 | kansascity.com | Christopher Bollen

It takes only a few pages for red flags to mount in Christopher Bollen's latest thriller, "Havoc."When we meet Maggie Burkhardt, the pandemic is raging and, for the previous three months, the 81-year-old has lived at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. The Wisconsinite has been traveling ever since her husband died six years earlier.
The Best Thrillers of 2024

Dec 4, 2024 | news.nestia.com | Christopher Bollen

The Best Thrillers of 2024 Image HavocBy Christopher BollenThis deliciously nasty tale of resentment and revenge is set in a hotel in Egypt, where an elderly woman who enjoys secretly meddling in the lives of others has set up residence during Covid. The arrival of another guest — a boy of 8 who can match her, diabolical deed for diabolical deed — threatens to destroy her carefully constructed spider web of intrigue.
Christopher Bollen's 'Havoc' imagines what happens when a young psycho and an elderly psycho meet

Dec 2, 2024 | startribune.com | Maren Longbella |Christopher Bollen

Fiction: Set in Egypt, Christopher Bollen’s novel finds evil meeting its match. December 2, 2024 at 2:00PMChristopher Bollen (Jack Pierson/Harper)It takes only a few pages for red flags to mount in Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller, “Havoc.”When we meet Maggie Burkhardt, the pandemic is raging and, for the previous three months, the 81-year-old has lived at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel in Luxor, Egypt. The Wisconsinite has been traveling ever since her husband died six years earlier.
Havoc

Nov 14, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Christopher Bollen

At the Royal Karnak Palace along the banks of the Nile, 81-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has finally found home. After 18 hotels in the last five years of travel, she enjoys the warm community of fellow long-term guests and the flattering solicitude of the Royal Karnak manager, Ahmed. Here, in the faded glory of a once-great hotel, she can grieve the death of her life partner, Peter, and overcome a dangerous compulsion that brought her to Egypt abruptly.