Downie Pushes "Rules"
“In D.C., there are rules about everything… and everyone breaks at least one rule. The question is, how far can you go?”
-A question posed by Len Downie, the former executive editor of The Washington Post.
Downie made an appearance at the Politics & Prose bookstore on Monday night to discuss the inspiration for his first novel, “The Rules of the Game.” After publishing four non-fiction books related to journalism, Downie felt that fiction would be “a way to express [his] feelings about… [his] interesting experiences in Washington.”
Writing about what he knows best, Downie drew on his eventful career with the Post for his novel.
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