Kent Gowran

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Chicago, IL
About Me:
Reader of all the good stuff: Crime, hardboiled, noir, mystery, suspense... whatever the good stuff is being called at any given moment.

I write some, too, just in a far less than prolific manner.
I Am A:
Reader
Books And Authors I Like:
Departed:

Jim Thompson
David Goodis
Harry Whittington
Gil Brewer
Dan Marlowe
Charles Willeford
Eugene Izzi
Ed McBain
Peter Rabe
Paul Cain
Richard S. Prather

And on and on...


Still Kicking:

Victor Gischler
Kent Harrington
Anthony Neil Smith
Ken Bruen
Elmore Leonard
Allan Guthrie
Duane Swierczynski
Scott Wolven
Kent Anderson
Ray Banks
Christa Faust
Mike Maclean
Megan Abbott
Charlie Williams
Charlie Stella
Richard Marinick
Don Winslow
etc.

Comment Wall:

  • Victor Gischler

    I just finished season 1 of Venture Bros. on DVD and am very looking forward to getting into season 2. Great show!

    I wish I could say my next book is coming out soon, but it'll be about a year ... a trade paperback on the Touchstone imprint of Simon & Schuster.

    Stay well.

    Jun 5, 2007

  • Kent Gowran

    Well, a year's not so bad. Is it the Go-Go Grils Of The Apocalypse book?

    I just saw the second season, and it was even better than the first. Think you'll dig it.

    Jun 5, 2007

  • Duane Swierczynski

    Hey, Kent! Thanks for the inivte...

    Jun 5, 2007

  • L. A. Starks

    Love Chicago! Spent 3 years there (northern Indiana and U of C business school) and set a chapter of 13 DAYS: THE PYTHAGORAS CONSPIRACY there.

    Jun 5, 2007

  • Craig Clarke

    Hey, Kent. Looks like a nice place.

    Jun 6, 2007

  • Craig Clarke

    Thanks. I think you'll find I, Claudius fits nicely into your usual reading. Only the time and setting (and the epic feel) are changed.

    Jun 6, 2007

  • Kent Gowran

    Wealth? I don't know much about that beyond what I've read in books. Heh. One of those myths, I reckon.

    Jun 6, 2007

  • Eric Stone

    Hi Kent, I like your author list. I'm also very fond of Chicago and am there at least once or twice a year. My sister is a photographer with the Trib. I'll be there in October, probably the 24th and 25th. I'll let you know details when I've got them.

    Jul 31, 2007

  • Simon Wood

    So that's what you look like.

    Aug 2, 2007

  • Tony Black

    Kent, thanks for the invite...
    Tony.

    Aug 2, 2007