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A collection of no-holds-barred interviews with 16 authors who have shaped and defined narrative fiction and songwriting. Includes conversations with crime fiction legends Elmore Leonard and James Crumley (in one of his last interviews); premier stylists James Sallis and Daniel Woodrell; noir kingpins James Ellroy and Ken Bruen, and top thriller writers Lee Child and Randy Wayne White. Stephen J. Cannell and Max Allan Collins hold forth on the intersection of crime novels and the silver show more screen while Andrew Vachss, Pete Dexter, Craig Holden, Alistair MacLeod, Tom Russell and Kinky Friedman round-out this one-of-a kind collection on the craft of writing an array of mavericks, trailblazers and the gadflies. Men of conscience, entrepreneurs and magnificent bastards, as McDonald puts it in his introduction. show less

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Craig McDonald is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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809.04Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismHistory, description, critical appraisal of more than two literaturesBy Period20th century, 1900-1999
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PS374 .D4 .M395Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureProseProse fiction

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