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“Fiction at its best asks us to look closely, and to ask both ourselves and others real questions.”
“Many books start this way, I suspect, with a single moment, and for me, this time, it was the image of a middle-aged man, in an officer’s uniform, casually spraying the deck of a superyacht with a hose.”
“Like the rest of the world, I was trying to put the Covid-19 pandemic behind me that summer.”
“I watched them for a while, and wondered who they were, and what they thought of their work, and this was the genesis of my novel The Red Dress.”
“There, behind the casino in the harbor, were the superyachts.”
“Near the end of our trip, we headed to Monaco.”
“The many deaths among them and their families passed unrecognized, but if they spoke out in resistance, they were fired, and the message spread fast.”
“Travel restrictions had been lifted only a few days before, and Rome was almost entirely empty of tourists.”
“Non-essential workers—executives, administrators, management of all kinds—disappeared into Zoom en masse across the country.”
“The gloves of structural and institutional power came off fully during the pandemic, and one of its central lessons was that we were not, in fact, in it together.”
“I was a frontline healthcare worker throughout the pandemic, and those weeks in Italy were a blessed relief.”
“Never in my life have I felt more disposable, or more like a name on a schedule.”
“Literary Hub » How a Novel is Born Among the Superyachts of Monaco Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In How a Novel is Born Among the Superyachts of Monaco Frank Huyler on the Inequalities Laid Bare By Covid Via Bellevue Literary Press Frank Huyler October 15, 2026 In the summer of 2021, as the Covid-19 pandemic was finally slowing down, my teenage son and I took a trip to Italy.”
“Bellevue Literary Press COVID-19 Frank Huyler rich super yacht The Red Dress travel wealth Frank Huyler Frank Huyler is the author of three novels, including The Red Dress (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in October 2026), and two books about his work as an emergency physician: The Blood of Strangers, considered a classic of medical writing, and White Hot Light, a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature.”
“He tossed his car keys to the uniformed valet, she took his arm possessively, and they walked together up the steps into the casino.”
“We stood on the Spanish Steps in the mild evening air, then continued down to the Trevi Fountain and dipped our hands in the water.”