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FIRST TAKE ON ROGUE MALES

Over at the Drowning Machine, Corey Wilde has a first take on my May 2009 book, ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE, featuring interviews with Andrew Vachss, Pete Dexter, James Crumley, James Sallis, Daniel Woodrell, Ken Bruen and James Ellroy among many others.

Added by Craig McDonald on February 23, 2009 at 5:03am — No Comments

INTERVIEW AT PULP PUSHER

Alison Janssen, editor of Bleak House Books (who performed the neat hat trick of editing three Edgar® Award finalists in the same calendar year) interviews me at Pulp Pusher about past works, future projects and other topics (including the author/editor relationship).

Added by Craig McDonald on February 23, 2009 at 1:16am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #5: HEMINGWAY & HOMICIDE

You can make a good case for Ernest Hemingway having left a profound mark on hardboiled crime fiction.



Graduate students and crime fiction aficionados have murdered trees arguing whether Hemingway influenced Dashiell Hammett or whether inspiration ran the other direction.



Raymond Chandler incorporated Hemingway in his fiction, wrote an astonishingly inept parody of Hemingway prose and staunchly defended Hem’s much-pilloried novel Across the River and Into the… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 14, 2008 at 11:17pm — No Comments

NEW ACME AUTHORS LINK GUESTS THIS WEEK

Catch Angela Wilson - Author Publicist, Virtual Tour Editor, Author, at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com, where she'll offer marketing tips on Wednesday, September 17, 2008.



You don't want to miss Craig Johnson, this week's Man of Mystery, as interviewed by resident mystery blogger, Rob Walker, at… Continue

Added by Morgan Mandel on September 14, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #4: HEMINGWAY & DOS PASSOS

A portion of Toros & Torsos takes place in Spain early in 1937 as Hector Lassiter joins Ernest Hemingway and novelist John Dos Passos in Madrid during the early days of the Spanish Civil War.



In T&T, Hector has gone to Spain as a favor to Pauline Hemingway — agreeing to watch over a sometimes erratic Ernest, while at the same time doing what he can to contain Hem’s growing preoccupation with journalist Martha Gellhorn, the woman destined to become the third of four Mrs.… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 8, 2008 at 10:34am — No Comments

T&T BACKSTORY #2: SURREALIST ART AND MURDER

The Hector Lassiter series is all about secret history — a blending of fact and fiction that aims to get at something like the hidden truth.



Toros & Torsos (aka, Hector Lassiter #2), spins on the premise that surrealist art and theory may have informed or inspired several bloody, unsolved crimes of the 20th Century — most notably the murder of Elizabeth Short, the so-called “Black Dahlia” as she was dubbed by panting L.A. journalists circa January 1947.



The… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 25, 2008 at 10:49am — No Comments

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