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“A shining example, really, of the uneasy contract between the public and private (Ian) Fleming is the story about him flinging a squid at t...

Ian Fleming and Noel Coward “Dear Beastie — “This is just to inform you that I have read ‘Dr. No’ from cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed...

My favorite books as a teenager included Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith. The canny creator of The Talented ...

“James Bond’s favorite meal of the day was breakfast,” Tom Weiss wrote. “It was also the favorite meal of Ian Fleming, 007’s creator. Fl...

James Bond encounters synchronicity in Ian Fleming’s novel Moonraker: “Startled at the great crimson words, Bond pulled in to the curb...

You can probably thank Bill Paley for For Your Eyes Only . During the summer of 1958, CBS commissioned Ian Fleming to write a TV series...

Signet paperback art by Barye Phillips Bond versus the American vulgarians — that’s Diamonds Are Forever, Ian Fleming’s fourth 007 th...

Spectre is the James Bond film I had hoped and expected to see after Casino Royale in 2006, one that retains the dark ...

James Bond had his first drink of the evening at Fouquet’s. It was not a solid drink. One cannot drink seriously in Fren...

While the first James Bond film , Dr. No, was being filmed in Jamaica, Ian Fleming was nearby in his house Goldeneye ...

James Bond probably owes much of his success to the comic strips. Before the films were made, Ian Fleming's novels ...

Sean Connery as 007 in "From Russia With Love;' Richard Burton as Leamas in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' ...

Here my thoughts on 10 books that have stayed with me ever since I read them, in no particular order: —    Plotting and Writ...

The second James Bond film, released in 1963, was based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel.

“From Russia With Love” has the distinction of being what many consider to be Ian Fleming’s best Bond novel, what many also c...

Art by Isdailic Sir Ian McKellen as Auric Goldfinger? Why the hell not? Here's another BBC radio play of an Ian Fleming novel, this ...

In his 1958 novel "Dr. No," the veteran gambler Ian Fleming finally tipped his hand. Prior to this, his sixth James Bond thril...

Now here's a find — the 1964 Ian Fleming novel "You Only Live Twice" done as a BBC radio play. The thriller is much differe...

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor Still in his early fifties, Ian Fleming nevertheless knew that he had less than five years to live, th...

The young Truman Capote Ian Fleming During the 1956 Jamaican sojourn when he was writing “From Russia With Love,” Ian Fl...