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New bestseller 'Falling' was written on napkins by a flight attendant while passengers slept August 3, 2021 at 3:10 pm TJ Newman was a flight attendant for 10 years. She quit when she got her book deal. (Photo courtesy of TJ Newman) TJ Newman had worked as a flight attendant for a decade when she got the idea for her New York Times bestselling novel, Falling, while working a shift. “It was a red eye that I was working, from Los Angeles to New York,” Newman said. “I was standing at the front of the cabin looking out at the passengers...

Email* Submit Just when you thought it was safe to go back into an airplane, T.J. Newman writes a novel, "Falling," about a commercial pilot in a completely unwinnable nightmare situation: Soon after taking off on another routine flight, someone kidnaps the pilot’s wife and children and (unbeknown to passengers and crew) gives him an option — crash the plane before it arrives in New York, kill everyone onboard or we will murder your family. If that sounds like a thriller waiting to happen, well: Universal already bought the rights and Newman’s book agent is Shane S...

View Comments On a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York several years ago, flight attendant T.J. Newman suddenly had a thought: What would happen if someone kidnapped a pilot’s family and demanded that the pilot crash the plane in exchange for their family’s safety? Unable to shake the thought, she posed the hypothetical question to a pilot she worked with several days later. His response was not a reassuring one. “The look on his face terrified me because I knew he didn't have an answer,” Newman said. “And that's when I knew I had a book to write.”

Turning Terror into a Scientific Memoir Interview with Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug Bill Sullivan In 1915, microbiologist Frederick Twort occasionally noticed clear areas disrupting the growth of bacteria on his culture dishes. Twort found that the fluid in these clear areas contained a powerful substance that could kill bacteria. Following up on these observations at his laboratory at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1917, microbiologist Félix d’Herelle theorized these agents might be viruses and...

Torri Newman dreamt up her terror-in-the-skies novel Falling while guarding the cockpit as the pilots took a toilet break. She reveals how she kept going through furlough and 41 rejections ‘The pilot didn’t have a clue what he would do’ … Newman preparing to fly. Photograph: Courtesy: TJ Newman ‘The pilot didn’t have a clue what he would do’ … Newman preparing to fly. Photograph: Courtesy: TJ Newman Tue 4 May 2021 01.00 EDT Flight attendant Torri Newman was working on the red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York when the idea for her debut novel came...