What Would Nick Travers Read?
I’m always heartened to hear from people who still remember my original creation, Nick Travers. The star of my first four novels, Nick was unlikely hero — a New Orleans hipster music researcher who’d rather listen to a classic blues show, drinks a few Dixies, and sleeps in. He had also been a professional football […]
Quinn Vs. Snopes
I just saw a review of The Ranger alongside a memoir written by Oxford pal, Dean Faulkner Wells. You may have heard of her uncle. He wrote a few books some time back. Leonard Gill with Memphis magazine is one of the few to get the background of Quinn and the world of Tibbehah County. […]
Deep Fried Love
Congratulations to the happy couple who got married in a convenience store where I often buy gas and coffee. Just when I think I’m pushing the Southern Gothic too far, I see these real Mississippi tales. They are greatly appreciated. God bless these folks for making a life altering decision before those snack cakes and […]
Knife vs. Gun
For those keeping track of production, I’m putting the finishing touches on the new Spenser novel and headed right back into the sequel to The Ranger. Both novels will be out in 2012. As I return to writing about Quinn, I’m often reminded of James Coburn in The Magnificent Seven. For those of you in […]
The French Actually Like Writers
I finished up the last signing for The Ranger last Thursday in Jackson, Mississippi. But on Sunday I had a chance to speak to Francois Busnel, host of La Grande Librairie — an extremely popular show in France focusing on writers. Can you imagine a show in America talking to writers instead of Real Housewives […]
Steve McQueen’s Motorcycle License
I saw this posted on the Sundance Channel website this morning. I agreed with the note on the post. It seems McQueen couldn’t take a bad pic — even a mug shot.
More Postcards from the Road
Postcards from the Road
On the Road
It’s been a couple days since my last post. It’s been pretty damn busy. THE RANGER tour kicked off to a great start in my home town of Oxford, Mississippi on Thursday. My thanks to everyone who came for the Square Books reading and carried the event on over to the City Grocery bar. Yesterday, […]
Washington Post Talks The Ranger and the Roots of Redneck Noir
By Patrick Anderson, Published: June 5 I confess to a perverse love of a subgenre I call redneck noir. Redneck noir, like all noir, offers a maximum of violence and a minimum of sentimentality, but it has the additional blessing of being acted out in the darkest recesses of the not-always-sunny South by people who prove themselves to […]