Destiny Express

“Boldly imagined, full of glamour and peril, this expressionist novel considers what people sacrifice when history leaves them no good options.” * Alta *
“Boldly imagined, full of glamour and peril, this expressionist novel considers what people sacrifice when history leaves them no good options.” * Alta *
“Daringly imagined and darkly romantic—a moral thriller.” – —Thomas Pynchon
“The sleek facade of Lang and von Harbou’s marriage is depicted in the novel with the artfulness of one of their exquisitely structured screenplays… Precise, convincing detailing of how it feels to have the ground you walk on give way beneath your feet… Lang’s alarming yearning for his wife and the deep black pool of loss that lies beneath is sparely, deeply poignant.” * —Deborah Mason, New York Times Book Review *
“Rodman, with his own sharp eye, has written a most original photogenic portrait…” – —Samuel Fuller
“What Rodman has done is hard, he’s written an historical novel which is dazzling for its restrained use of history. The painfully accurate sensitivities of Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou are the real subjects of the book. Sentence by careful sentence, the resonance between what they see and how they see gives Destiny Express a quality of sober reflection that becomes quite beautiful.” – —Michael Tolkin
“Rodman, with his own sharp eye, has written a most original photogenic portrait…” – —Samuel Fuller
“Remarkable, passionate, inventive….” – —Harlan Ellison

Howard A. Rodman is the author of the novels Destiny Express and The Great Eastern. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Black Clock, and elsewhere.

As a screenwriter, his films include Joe Gould’s Secret; August with Josh Hartnett, Rip Torn, and David Bowie; and Savage Grace with Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne. On television, he’s written for Fallen Angels and staffed on HBOMax’s The Idol.

He’s a vice president of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a past president of the Writers Guild of America West. Rodman is one of seventeen members of the Screenwriters Hall of Fame, and was knighted by the Republic of France as an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

As an academic, Rodman is professor and former chair of the division of screenwriting at USC. As a journalist, he’s published hundreds of articles beginning with his tenure as editor-in-chief of the Cornell Daily Sun. In 2011 Rodman organized the nationwide Fantômas centennial, and remains on the steering committee of NOIRCON.

Those who lived through the post-punk era in lower Manhattan may have seen him play guitar with the bands Arsenal and MADE IN USA. A proud son of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Rodman currently lives in Los Angeles.

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