Two of Andrew Klavan’s novels, True Crime and Don’t Say a Word, have been turned into motion pictures starring, respectively, Clint Eastwood and Michael Douglas, while Klavan wrote the screenplay for a third picture, A Shock to the System, which starred Michael Caine. Hollywood, in short, has been good, very good, to Andrew Klavan. Yet this very summer Klavan wrote that felt “ashamed of the industry.”

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Andrew Klavan, the author, most recently, of Empire of Lies, on what’s wrong with Hollywood.