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.
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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.
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These are grim times to be someone who makes their living with words.
I’ve already stood witness to the decimation of the newspaper trade. I’m watching the New York publishing industry repeat many of the same mistakes their newspaper brethren made the past five to ten years. Print journalism was pushed to the brink of financial self-endangerment well before the economy went south.
As I write this, Shaman Drum, a terrific…
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Added by Craig McDonald on June 24, 2009 at 1:24pm —
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(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 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…
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(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…
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Sandra Ruttan interviews me about interviewing authors
here.
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(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…
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Added by Craig McDonald on May 19, 2009 at 12:26am —
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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.
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A great write-up on ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS & CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE at
Hardboiled Wonderland.
Added by Craig McDonald on May 11, 2009 at 11:16pm —
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(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 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 background about each of…
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Added by Craig McDonald on May 2, 2009 at 11:46am —
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(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, Elmore Leonard 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…
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Added by Craig McDonald on April 21, 2009 at 10:30am —
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(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.
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…
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Added by Craig McDonald on April 10, 2009 at 7:59am —
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(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.
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’ll be sharing a little background about…
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Added by Craig McDonald on April 5, 2009 at 1:30am —
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(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 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’ll be…
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Added by Craig McDonald on April 2, 2009 at 1:41am —
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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 Leonard and the late, great James Crumley.
Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis…
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Added by Craig McDonald on March 29, 2009 at 10:30am —
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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…
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Added by Craig McDonald on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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The February/March 2009 issue of
Mystery News features my interview with Edgar® Award-winning author Megan Abbott regarding the hardboiled past, her works to date, the art of the short story and her forthcoming novel, BURY ME DEEP (July 2009). You can read an excerpt
here, and find information for ordering
Mystery News if you're not a subscriber.
Added by Craig McDonald on February 25, 2009 at 3:46am —
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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 —
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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 —
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A special thanks to all those who said hello, who attended one of the panels on which I participated, who stopped by to have a book signed, or who just took the time to say hello at the Baltimore edition of Bouchercon (my first swing at this crime fiction version of Pamplona).
Thanks also to all those who cared enough to share their reaction to HEAD GAMES and its follow-up, TOROS & TORSOS. Reviews of the latter are just beginning to show up.
But for those who have…
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