"I really had tremendous luck, falling into those characters and that story and that city," he says, a little wistfully. Right now, he's still enjoying the pleasurable fall-out from "Midnight." John Berendt was born on 1940 in 1940, is a Miscellaneous, Writer, Producer. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (Earlier this year, he wrote for the New Yorker about a man there who likes to wear women's clothing.) The only thing he knows about his next book is that he plans to start one eventually. By the time the Fenice is rebuilt and reopens, Berendt has delivered an intriguing mosaic of modern life in Venice, which makes for first-rate travel writing, albeit one that lacks a compelling core story to keep one reading into the night. But he's leery of following up "Midnight" with a book about another city, especially a Southern one, although some Nashville citizens remain convinced he is doing just that. Berendt still loves Savannah and visits often. Hotel room-tax collections were up 18.3 percent in one quarter, while 1994 convention bookings went up 40 percent. According to a recent report from Bloomberg Business News, "Midnight" boosted the city's tourism industry, creating jobs and new businesses. Meanwhile, Savannah is a boom town and everyone credits The Book.
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