Hardboiled Wonderland hat sich mit Duane Swierczynski (aka Duane Louis) über Genres, seine Bücher, „Level 26“ und den ganzen Rest unterhalten:
I love ticking clock stories — there something about them that tells the reader, „Look, there will be no fucking about with this one. We’re on a tight schedule, so buckle up.“
But like you said, it also helps me focus. Creative restrictions (be they temporal, or spatial, or otherwise) are a huge help to me. Every novel so far has had some set of handcuffs. That said, my next big novel project will be different in that there will be no ticking clock, and it will take place over a (relatively) long period of time — which is something very new for me. (…)
I do enjoy the extremes, and for whatever reason I seem drawn to writing about people on the worst days of their lives — and watching how they deal (or don’t deal) with it. These kinds of things fascinate me.
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Dort gibt es auch ein, ebenfalls lesenswertes, Interview mit Victor Gischler.
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The Rap Sheet hat Ali Karim zu „An Hour with Lee Child“ verdonnert. Ali war erfreut.
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