Interview with C. J. Box Author of the beloved Joe Pickett series and critically acclaimed stand-alones like Blue Heaven, C. J. Box uses his series to explore, through the eyes of ordinary and honest Joe Pickett, the varied and controversial issues that confront Wyoming. A Wyoming native himself, C. J. Box has a degree in Mass Communications […]
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Interview with Jonathan Payne
Finding inspiration in a fever dream, Jonathan Payne wrote his debut novel, Citizen Orlov. But beyond its surreal inspiration, the novel’s subject matter is rooted in Payne’s own experiences. Before moving to Washington, DC, Payne worked in national security for the British government and that, particularly his overseas assignments, laid the groundwork for Citizen Orlov. […]
Wastrels and Layabouts: Six Novels with Charming, Workshy Anti-heroes by Peter Mann
Writers are great shirkers, as everyone suspects and all writers know. Our patron saint is Bartleby of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, whose great refusal, “I would prefer not to,” is our battle cry against the world of workaday drudgery. For why work when you can write? Of course, it takes discipline and craft, those […]