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“Censorship had raised gossip to the level of official communication.” 1933: The Year the Nazis Seized Power" by Philip Metcafe.0\--  The Gossip Columnist, Sunday, April 22 , 1945    It's been a strange experience, reading this book at this time in the United States. It's arrived as democracy is under daily assault in Congress and the streets of our cities. Processes similar to those used by the Nazis have been echoed in our news headlines, attacks on our institutions, including press repression. I asked Martyn Burke , author of the new novel, THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST (1/27/26 DarkSpur Press), the following question:          Q. What is there from your own experience that you brought into the story of The Gossip Columnist? A. "In totalitarian societies I’ve seen the terror and the crushing of moral guidelines, and always there is the question you ask yourself: “How did it get to this?” I spent a lot of time researching the step-by-step descent o...

PUB DATE TODAY! THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST By Martyn Burke, BOOK TRAILER, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_iEHvbUe6Y Burke manages, with impressive literary artistry, to shed some light on a historical conundrum:   How did such unabashed   savagery spring from such a famously refined national culture? A stunning novel crackling with historical insight ”  -- Kirkus Reviews FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Gossip long ago became the only truth we get. After the Nazis took over, I had to write my newspaper column in a kind of code.” –THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST.   MARTYN BURKE’S THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST EXAMINES WHAT HAPPENED IN 1933, WHEN CENSORSHIP RAISED GOSSIP TO OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION.  Based on historical fact, THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST, is set in Berlin--from the depraved and hedonistic days of Weimar Germany to the end of WW2. The Nazi infatuation with power had degenerated to a sexual circus in the 20’s and 30’s. Bella and Karin, two sisters about ten years apart...