Jonathan Santlofer

Dubbed "The First Mona Lisa" (sounds like a prequel to my 2021 novel "The Last Mona Lisa) with claims that it is an earlier version painted by Leonardo himself. Real or Fake? What do you think? I know what I think.

An honor to moderate the post-screening conversation with Joyce Carol Oates & Stig Bjorkman who has brought the literary legend's life to the screen. @IFCFilms @IFC @JoyceCarolOates @StigBjorkman @documentaryFilm @writers @filmmakers #Documentary

I was sure THE LOST VAN GOGH was finished but my grandson suggested I add kittens to chapter 1, puppies to chapter 2, and a visit to the zoo, to cheer Vincent up! @vangoghartist @vangoghmuseum #thrillers @historicalfiction #grandchildren @crimeFiction #Grandparents @painters

@ahoffmanwriter Looks like Shelby could walk you!

Remembering Anne Frank on her birthday, June 12, 1929. Her brilliant witty hopeful diary a lesson in faith and humanity. Here, pictured, a sink in the one bathroom shared by 8 people, a photo of Anne, both at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. @annefrankhouse #AnneFrank #writers

Marcia Tucker in Gagosian's summer mag. Brilliant curator. Founder of The New Museum. Fired from the Whitney for "radical" thinking i.e. including women and people of color in museum shows! Champion of artists and good friend. #Curators @artists @art #ArtMuseums @MarciaTucker411

@LauraMLippman SO looking forward to "Prom Mom!" Let me the pub date so I can post it. Congrats.

@meganeabbott @poisonedpen @reporterestes @PutnamBooks I'm sure you added to the heat! ❤️

What a wonderful (+ scorching) afternoon at the iconic @poisonedpen. Thanks to all who came out or preordered! 📸@reporterestes @PutnamBooks

Copy edits finished on “The Lost Van Gogh!” Moving forward with excitement as Luke Perrone, Alexis Verde and John Washington Smith risk it all once again in the name of art and decency (remember that?). @vangoghartist @vangoghmuseum #artist #painters #CrimeFiction #thrillers

Hearing the news that Tina Turner died knocked me out and I did what I always do when I want to hold onto someone: made a drawing. This one, in ink. What a loss to the world but her music and legend live on. Tina Turner: simply the best

@edoballerini So true. And yet here we are.

Recently took a Twitter break (much needed) and also posted about how social media is dangerous (irony noted) and now it seems my entries here are not showing up. Hmm… Let me know if you can see this, please.

My quick pencil sketch of Bob Dylan on his 82nd Birthday. Makes me feel old and young all at once. May you stay forever young, Bobby Zimmerman. @bobdylan @BobDylanProject #SingerSongwriter #FolkMusic #musician #pencilsketch #Drawing #Sketching #rockmusic #aging

Finally the cover of my new book, THE LOST VAN GOGH, sequel to THE LAST MONA LISA. Stay tuned for more info pics and videos as well as everything you always wanted to know about Van Gogh plus a few surprises #BookCovers #thrillers #CrimeFiction @vangoghartist #AuthorsOfTwitter

@MarkDanowsky You said it, Tina!

"People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.” - Tina Turner

@meganeabbott Yes! Or as Billy Wilder always said, "If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act."

To me, the first third of the novel is always the most fun to write, except you have to forget what you definitely know: that most of it ends up on the cutting room floor.

@meganeabbott Laura forever

“My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.” Happy birthday, the unforgettable Gene Tierney … 📷 George Hurrell, 1944

@LauraMLippman The aging face keeps getting better and better

@meganeabbott @criterionchannl Thanks. I have somehow missed this. Michael Curtiz, Hemingway AND John Garfield AND Patricia Neal.

A #Noirvember rec, the criminal underseen masterpiece, BREAKING POINT (Dir. Michael Curtiz, 1950), the 2nd adaptation of Hemingway’s exercise in hardboiled fiction, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. @criterionchannl criterionchannel.com/the-breaking-p…

@meganeabbott @PutnamBooks Just the line I can read is enough to know the book is going to be brilliant. That, and the fact that you wrote it! ❤️

the most perilous stage: page proofs, first pass 🫦🤞🐍 gulp (coming summer 2023)

@meganeabbott Can't wait

Swoon. A must-see for every lover of film noir. nytimes.com/2022/10/13/mov…