All Blog Posts Tagged 'mcdonald' (21)

SHORT STORY AT CRIMEWAV.COM

My reading of my short story "The Devil's in the Details" is now up at CrimeWAV.com. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on November 24, 2009 at 1:37pm — No Comments

My series focusing on interview subjects featured in Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations about the Writing Life resumes with Ken Bruen at my new blog site. Also, details regarding a newsletter contest continuing through the February 2010 release of my next novel, Print the… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on November 19, 2009 at 1:18am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES REVIEW

Oline Cogdill reviews ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 13, 2009 at 12:09am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #11, LEE CHILD

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Stephen J. Cannell, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Dan… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on August 1, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #10, RANDY WAYNE WHITE

Added by Craig McDonald on July 12, 2009 at 11:31pm — No Comments

NEW INTERVIEW POSTED AT SPINETINGLER

Brian Lindenmuth interviews me — a broad, wide-ranging discussion about genre, changing gender roles and the state of the mystery/crime novel among other topics at Spinetingler Magazine. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on June 30, 2009 at 11:07pm — No Comments

TOWER INTERVIEW #1 WITH KEN BRUEN NOW POSTED

To promote the autumn release of Busted Flush Press' new Ken Bruen/Reed Farrel Coleman collaboration, TOWER, I agreed to interview Ken, Reed and the novel's editor, Allan Guthrie. The first of the three interviews, this one with Ken, is now available HERE. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on June 30, 2009 at 1:25am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #9, KINKY FRIEDMAN

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Craig Holden and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 31, 2009 at 12:06pm — 3 Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #8, MAX ALLAN COLLINS

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Elmore Leonard, Lee Child, Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis about the craft of writing. During the next few weeks, I’m sharing a little bit about each of the 16 writers featured in… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 22, 2009 at 9:47am — No Comments

NEW INTERVIEW POSTED

Jedidiah Ayres interviews me at Hardboiled Wonderland regarding the Hector Lassiter series, including PRINT THE LEGEND, coming early in 2010 from Minotaur Books. We also discuss ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE which was officially released this week by Bleak House Books. Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 15, 2009 at 12:58am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #6, ELMORE LEONARD

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Pete Dexter, James Ellroy, Daniel Woodrell, Kinky Friedman and James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the des… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on May 2, 2009 at 11:46am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #4, CRAIG HOLDEN

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is a collection of author interviews. It includes Pete Dexter, Alistair MacLeod, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore Leonard and James Crumley.… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on April 10, 2009 at 7:59am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #3, JAMES ELLROY

Added by Craig McDonald on April 5, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #2, JAMES CRUMLEY

(Author’s note: Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, is my second collection of author interviews. This one includes James Ellroy, Pete Dexter, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore Leonard and the late, great James Crumley. Rogue Males also features… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on April 2, 2009 at 1:41am — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #1, TOM RUSSELL

This year finds me briefly veering back over to the nonfiction side of the publishing world with Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, a second collection of interviews with authors including James Ellroy, Pete Dexter, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 29, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON ROGUE MALES

Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald. Bleak House Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60648-036-6; paper $14.95 ISBN 978-1-932557-45-9 A fascinating follow-up to the 2006 Art in the Blood dialogue with leading crime writers, this collection by journalist and fiction writer McDonald (Head Games) underlines the “rogue male” theme by putting some of the most influential crime fiction wizards under the spotlight. Among the personal… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

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. Continue

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). Continue

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 Trees. Hem’s near brushes… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on September 14, 2008 at 11:17pm — 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. Hemingways. For… Continue

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