Podcast appearances and mentions of Daniel Woodrell

Southern Fiction: Shane Brown & Michael Farris SmithMichael Farris Smith and Shane Brown write what they know. Both could be described as writers of Southern Noir.Smith has had a successful career writing novels, screenplays, and short stories. He is also a musician and leads the local Oxford band, Michael Farris Smith and the Smokes. Their latest release is called Lostville. You can see the film, Chasing Rabbits, on Tubi, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV.Shane Brown is the son of acclaimed author Larry Brown. He is following in his father's footsteps in writing in a similar voice. He has recently landed a publishing deal and his first book will be out soon. Both authors are located in Oxford, a gathering point for creative types. Must be something in the air.Southern noir is a gritty, atmospheric subgenre of fiction that merges the dark, cynical tone of classic noir with the distinct cultural and historical backdrop of the American South. Set in humid, decaying towns or sprawling urban underbellies, it features flawed protagonists—often detectives, drifters, or outcasts—navigating a world of corruption, violence, and moral ambiguity. Infused with Southern Gothic elements, such as grotesque characters and oppressive settings, Southern noir explores themes of racial tension, class struggle, and the lingering weight of history, all wrapped in a sultry, fatalistic vibe. Authors like James Lee Burke and Daniel Woodrell craft taut, evocative tales that pulse with the South's unique blend of beauty and brutality.Join my Supporters Club for $4.99 per month for exclusive stories:https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/what-if-it-s-true-podcast--5445587/support

WVBR News Director Jack Donnellan sat down for a second time with author, editor, and publisher Mark Wish. Mark and his wife founded an annual short story anthology, Coolest American Stories, which pushes its contributors to make their fiction as compelling as possible, reminding them that readers crave “unputdownable” storytelling. Mark also served as the Fiction Editor of California Quarterly, was the founding Fiction Editor of New York Stories and a Contributing Editor for Pushcart, and has long been known as the freelance editor who has revised the fiction of once-struggling writers, leading it to land numerous book deals as well as publication in dozens of venues including The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Hudson Review, and Best American Short Stories.  His first novel, Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman, compared favorably with Huckleberry Finn by the Los Angeles Times back in 1997, went to a second printing one month after publication. Watch Me Go, his third novel, was published by Putnam and praised by Rebecca Makkai, Daniel Woodrell, Ben Fountain, and Salman Rushdie. More than 125 of Mark's short stories have appeared in print venues such as Best American Short Stories, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, The Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, Fiction, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Barrelhouse, The Yale Review, The Sun, Paris Transcontinental, and Fiction International, and have won distinctions such as the Tobias Wolff Award, the Kay Cattarulla Award, an Isherwood Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize.  The interview aired live on Talk of the Town on WVBR 93.5 FM on Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM. Catch the full Talk of the Town radio show on Saturdays at 3p on WVBR 93.5 FM or at wvbr.com. Follow us on social media! @WVBRFMNews on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. wvbr.com/afterhours

We welcome back best-selling crime novelist Tod Goldberg to talk about one of his favorite books, by one of his favorite authors. Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel was the basis for the 2012 film of the same name, which netted Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar nomination at the age of 20. The movie is a pretty faithful adaptation of the novel, though the book's musical language and rich detail make it worth a read even for those who've seen the film.  We talk about the book's fresh take on a familiar story structure--the "hero's quest"--and how it both fits and doesn't within the "crime" genre. We also talk to Tod about his own work, how he develops the plots of his novels, why he no longer gives readings, and lots more. Including our first-ever Book Fight blind item! You can learn more about Tod, and his many books, at his website: https://todgoldberg.com/ And check out the Hannukah noir anthology he recently edited for Penguin Random House, Eight Very Bad Nights. Thanks for listening!

"La muerte del pequeño Shug", de Daniel Woodrell, una novela negra con toques rurales."El traje del muerto", de Joe Hill, novela de terror que cuenta la vida de una estrella del rock que colecciona objetos paranormales."El abuelo que saltó por la ventana y se largó", de Jonas Jonasson, una historia extremadamente audaz e ingeniosa que sorprenderá constantemente al lector.

In which Dumbledore comes to fetch Harry from the Dursleys and finally gives them a piece of his mind. Support the SAG-AFTRA strike! https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/ Email us at restrictedsectionpod@gmail.com to tell us what you thought of Will and Won't or even what you think of us! We'd love to read your email on the show. Be sure to subscribe to know right away about new episodes, and rate and review! SUPPORT US ON OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/therestrictedsection THANK YOU LOVE YOU BUY OUR MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/user/restricted-section-podcast THANK YOU LOVE YOU IG: https://www.instagram.com/restrictedsectionpod/ TW: https://twitter.com/restrictedpod FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rspoddetentioncrew/   Check out our other amazing Deus Ex Media podcasts! www.deusexmedia.org   This episode featured: Emily Strand and Katy McDaniel from Potterversity! Check out Potterversity: https://www.mugglenet.com/mugglenet-family/potterversity/ Pre-order Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter, which is coming out this October! https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781476690537 Find Emily on Twitter https://twitter.com/ekcstrand Check out Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781648896712 Also check out Star Trek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9781648895944 Read The Second War Was Won On the Quidditch Pitch(ed) https://carmelcollege.academia.edu/EmilyStrand (you need to sign up for a free acct to access) Emily plugged Doomsday Book by Connie Willis https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780553562736 Emily also plugged Deep Space Nine https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/star_trek_deep_space_nine/ Find Katy  Katy plugged The Princess Bride by William Goldman https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780156035217 Katy also plugged Kubo and the Two Strings https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4302938/ Also, Song of the Sea https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/ Also, the Secret of Kells https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485601/ Christina Kann https://linktr.ee/christinakann Christina continues to plug the Three Dark Crowns series and forgetting she's plugged it 100 times already Brooke Matherly IG @passion_for_parks https://www.instagram.com/passion_for_parks/ TW @grumpybrooke https://twitter.com/grumpyBrooke Brooke plugged Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell https://bookshop.org/a/82745/9780316066419

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your family. An old adage that the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman knew all too well. Every family has that one black sheep, right? In the case of the Trumans, that shameful distinction fell on James John Chiles, aka Jim Crow Chiles, Harry's Uncle by marriage; a violent Missouri Bushwhacker who fought alongside Bloody Bill Anderson and Jesse James described by author David G. McCullough as universally hated and the stuff of children's nightmares. And believe it or not, Chiles got the nickname Jim Crow due to his talent as a dancer. Minstrel dancing, to be precise.  Apparently in the 1830s and 1840's there was a popular white entertainer by the name of Thomas Dartmouth Rice who performed a song-and-dance routine in blackface while mimicking African Americans. The persona he put on during his act was known as Jim Crow. Rice went on tours all over the country, even in England, and it wasn't long before “Jim Crow” was just a common phrase used to describe all white comedians who did these degrading black-face type performances. And of course, years later the term would be adopted as the identifier for laws reinstating white supremacy in the South. And evidently, Truman's uncle was one hell of a Jim Crow dancer. Not exactly the type of association you'd want to have as a politician, right? Even in 1945 when Truman was elected. Oh, and don't worry – it gets much worse. Uncle Chile's comedy routine was the least of the future President's worries. Who was Jim Crow Chiles? A true menace to society or just a poor misunderstood soul just dancing away his sorrows? How did he fall in with Bloody Bill Anderson and William Quantrill? And did he really serve with General Shelby's Iron Brigade?   Check out the website for more true tales from the Old West https://www.wildwestextra.com/   Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/   Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest   Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/   Join Patreon for ad-free and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra   Merchandise! https://www.teepublic.com/user/wild-west-extravaganza   Book Recommendations! https://www.amazon.com/shop/wildwestextravaganza/list/YEHGNY7KFAU7?ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d   Bloody Bill Anderson | The Wild West Extravaganza - https://www.wildwestextra.com/bloody-bill-anderson-the-missouri-bushwhackers/   Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell - https://archive.org/details/woetoliveon0000wood/page/n7/mode/1up   Ride With The Devil clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Yc2RUw2WE   Truman by David McCullough - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671456547?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=0671456547&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin   Quantrill in Texas by Paul Peterson - https://www.amazon.com/dp/158182582X?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=158182582X&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin   Missouri Outlaws by Paul Kirkman - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625859155?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzjoshta02-20&creativeASIN=1625859155&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.YEHGNY7KFAU7&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ofs_mixed_d_asin   Hat Creek Audio - https://hatcreekaudio.com/

För detta avsnitt tog jag mig till Kristianstad i syfte att tala med Erik Karlsson, professionell fotograf sen 60 år tillbaka (men än brinnande amatör). Han har fotograferat världen över från New York till Sydney och fångat figurer som Börje Salming mot NY Rangers i Madison Square Garden till Jimi Hendrix i musikens rus till gamle Emil i Hyssna. Vi pratar om problematiken med kreativt arbete, att fotografera människor och deras underliga ögon, äkta förfalskningar, att missa ögonblicket för upplevelsen, likgiltigheten i ”Det är inte så noga”, det vackra verket samt en rad av Eriks fotografier vilka passar in under respektive delar av konversationen. För detta avsnitt rekommenderar jag att titta eller hoppa igenom video-versionen av denna pod på ”Nilsaskens” youtube sida, då alla fotografierna i fråga visas där i ordning. – TIME-STAMPS – (00:00) – Intro (01:39) – Hur kom du att bli Fotograf? (03:46) – Amatör och Professionell (07:20) – Problematiken med Kreativt Arbete (10:01) – Självförtroende (13:46) – Att Fotografera Människor (18:30) – Ögonen (23:57) – Förändra vad man vill Fånga (28:32) – Ögonblicket, Tur och Erfarenhet (31:48) – Foton till Kjuge-guiden (36:24) – Äkthet (47:25) – Äkta förfalskningar och Falska uppföljare (57:27) – Missa Ögonblicket för Upplevelsen (1:02:17) – Vad gör en Bra Bild? (1:08:36) – Objektiv Sanning (1:16:08) – Berättelsen (1:18:05) – Likgiltigheten i "Det är inte så noga" (1:22:50) – Det Vackra Verket (1:28:17) – Böcker och Språk (1:37:35) – Mörkret (1:40:47) – Ett Urval av Eriks Fotografier – SHOWNOTES – Eriks instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fotograferikkarlsson/ Eriks hemsida: http://fotograferikkarlsson.com/ Werner Herzog, dokumentärmakare: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001348/ William Henry Jackson, amerikansk fotograf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Jackson Böcker De oroliga, Linn Ullmans: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_oroliga The Road, Cormac McCarthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road Steglitsan, Donna Tartts: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steglitsan Tomato Red, Daniel Woodrell: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763679.Tomato_Red – PODCAST INFO – Alla avsnitt: https://anchor.fm/nilsasken Instagram: https://instagram.com/carl.nilsask/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nilsasken Hemsida: https://nilsasken610764299.wordpress.com/ – ÖVRIGT – YouTube - Carl Nilsask: https://youtube.com/@carl.nilsask

TIMOTHY J LOCKHART chats to Paul Burke about UNLUCKY MONEY, Norfolk Virginia, hardboiled crime and Brit Grit.UNLUCKY MONEY When Chinese American private-eye Wendy Lu takes on her first murder case, she doesn't realize how dangerous it's going to be. Probing into the murder of Susan Fontaine, the wife of her client, wealthy real-estate developer Whit Fontaine—the primary suspect in the case—Wendy fights to prove he was framed. Wendy used to be a cop but quit after a rookie mistake caused the death of her partner. Now she leads a more traditional life, dealing with her guilt, feeling she has disappointed her parents. Yet despite hostility from Fontaine's arrogant business partner, opposition from the police, and violent threats on her life, she perseveres in the case.And that's when Wendy discovers things that Fontaine, his partner Tom McKenna, and even Ryan Connolly, the police detective in charge of the murder investigation, would like to keep secret—that Fontaine-McKenna Associates is using criminal-syndicate money to finance the casino the firm wants to build. Now she is forced to use everything she's learned just to stay alive.Timothy J. Lockhart is a lawyer and former U.S. Navy officer who worked with the CIA, DIA, and Office of Naval Intelligence. In addition to his novels Smith, Pirates, A Certain Man's Daughter and Unlucky Money (all from Stark House Press), he has written articles and book reviews for a variety of publications, including Naval Intelligence Quarterly, Naval War College Review, and The Virginian-Pilot. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, with his wife and daughter.Recommendations Crime:George V Higgins The Friends of Eddie CoyleJames M Cain The Postman Always Rings TwiceElmore Leonard GlitzElliott Chaze Black Wings Has My AngelCharles Williams, Daniel Woodrell, Megan Abbott, Jim Thompson, Vicki Hendricks, Ted Lewis, Derek Raymond, Mark Timlin.Nick Triplow Getting CarterMilitary history:Ian W Toll Pacific Crucible (vol1 of trilogy)Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate & LeighCrime TimePaul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover, NB Magazine and the European Literature Network.

Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith welcome author, poet and YouTuber extraordinaire Camille Myrick on their spring Interview with a Creative episode. They discuss the themes in Camille’s poetry and how she juggles her creative projects, all while capturing the now through poetry and process. Camille closes out with a simple but powerful QWERTY Challenge for us all. Get to know more about Camille: https://www.instagram.com/camillemyrick/ http://youtube.com/camillemyrick https://twitter.com/camille_myrick https://www.facebook.com/camillemyrick/ Check out these fine resources, tools and books mentioned in the episode: Remarkable Tablet: https://remarkable.com Alphasmart Neo 2 Word Processor: https://www.amazon.com/Neo2-Alphasmart-Processor-Keyboard-Calculator/dp/B00T0ZG06O A Flash of Words Anthology: http://www.scoutmediabooksmusic.com/a-flash-of-words-2 Ellen Hopkins: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Ellen-Hopkins/20799681 Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi: https://www.goodreads.com/series/65730-shatter-me National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, folk horror: https://www.littlebrown.com/contributor/daniel-woodrell/ Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn: https://www.gillian-flynn.com/books/sharp-objects-movie-tie-in-tr/sharp-objects-mm The Devil All the Time by Daniel Ray Pollock: http://donaldraypollock.net The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel: https://amyengel.net Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161156-hillbilly-elegy Hell in the Heartland by Jax Miller: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52218496-hell-in-the-heartland The Current by Tim Johnston: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36387759-the-current Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Please share our podcast with your friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.

http://www.michaelkoryta.com/ Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is the New York Times-bestselling author of 11 suspense novels. His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. They've been selected as "best books of the year" by publications as diverse as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, Reader's Digest, iBooks, and Kirkus Reviews. @Copyrighted by Authors on the Air

http://www.michaelkoryta.com/ Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is the New York Times-bestselling author of 11 suspense novels. His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. They've been selected as "best books of the year" by publications as diverse as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, Reader's Digest, iBooks, and Kirkus Reviews. @Copyrighted by Authors on the Air

www.michaelkoryta.com/ Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is the New York Times-bestselling author of 11 suspense novels. His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger. They've been selected as "best books of the year" by publications as diverse as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com, O the Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, Reader's Digest, iBooks, and Kirkus Reviews. @Copyrighted by Authors on the Air

This week Jennie, Megan and Pete travel across the sands of Dune, and explore Paul's version of the Hero's Journey. Links: Jennie - Listening to the Dirt Cheap podcast. Megan - Reading "Normal People" by Sally Rooney Pete - Reading Rural Noir by authors like Donald Ray Pollock, including "Devil all the Time," and "Winter's Bone"by Daniel Woodrell

Hosts: H. Goff and LB A podcast where one of reads the book, the other watches the movie and then we talk about it. This episode: Winter's Bone written by Daniel Woodrell and Winter's Bone directed by Debra Granik. We discuss writing, cinematography, poverty, and the importance of authenticity. Trigger Warning: Drug use, mentions of sexual assault, and mentions of pedophilia.

The boyos get all neighborly in this murder ballad by the fellow who wrote Winter’s Bone and Tomato Red! Also: a game is played! 28:07 A Literary Game 41:02 Final Thoughts TopgallantRadio.com - Radio for sailors

With Special Guest Ahmed Masoud. Featured on today's Pop-Ups... "Another Age" - commercial womens fiction from Hayley Gullen; "World Without Hope?" - science fiction from C.H.Woodson; "Space Lawyer For Hire" - adult sf legal thriller from Matt Reardon; "Cities of Silence" - science fantasy from Colby Weir; "The House of Ghosts" - historical fiction from Christopher Jory. Geoff's book recommendation is "The Death of Sweet Mister" by Daniel Woodrell. Ahmed's book recommendation is "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. Subscribe to Litopia's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/c/Litopia and join us live every Sunday at 5pm UK! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!

With Special Guest Ahmed Masoud. Featured on today's Pop-Ups... "Another Age" - commercial womens fiction from Hayley Gullen; "World Without Hope?" - science fiction from C.H.Woodson; "Space Lawyer For Hire" - adult sf legal thriller from Matt Reardon; "Cities of Silence" - science fantasy from Colby Weir; "The House of Ghosts" - historical fiction from Christopher Jory. Geoff's book recommendation is "The Death of Sweet Mister" by Daniel Woodrell. Ahmed's book recommendation is "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. Subscribe to Litopia's channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/c/Litopia and join us live every Sunday at 5pm UK! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes highly acclaimed debut novelist Gale Massey to the studio.   Gale Massey’s first novel, The Girl From Blind River, received a 2018 Florida Book Award and debuted in the time-honored Book of the Month Club. Her award winning stories and essays have appeared in the Tampa Bay Times, Sabal, Seven Hills Press, and other places. She has received fellowships at The Sewanee Writers Conference and Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Massey, a Florida native, lives in St. Petersburg. lives in St. Petersburg, FL. About the Book:  A gritty tale of how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love for fans of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone from Gale Massey, a talented new name in crime fiction. Everyone says the Elders family are nothing but cheats, thieves, and convicts?a fact nineteen-year old Jamie Elders has been trying desperately to escape. She may have the natural talent of a poker savant, but her dreams of going pro and getting the hell out of the tiny town of Blind River, New York are going nowhere fast. Especially once she lands in a huge pile of debt to her uncle Loyal.  At Loyal’s beck and call until her debt is repaid, Jamie can’t easily walk away?not with her younger brother Toby left at his mercy. So when Loyal demands Jamie’s help cleaning up a mess late one night, she has no choice but to agree. But disposing of a dead man and covering up his connection to the town’s most powerful judge goes beyond family duty. When it comes out that the victim was a beloved athlete and Loyal pins the murder on Toby, only Jamie can save him. But with a dogged detective on her trail and her own future at stake, she’ll have to decide: embrace her inner criminal, or defy it?and face the consequences.

Debra was a Boston independent filmmaker before she picked up and left for NYU’s graduate film program. Her first short film there, “Snake Feed,” was accepted into the Sundance Labs, where she developed the concept into her first narrative feature, Down to the Bone, starring Vera Fermiga. From there, Debra and her creative partner Anne Rossellini developed a film based on Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel, Winter's Bone. The film was released in 2010 and tells the story of a girl who’s the sole caretaker of her family who must hunt down her missing father to avoid being kicked out of her house and losing everything. The girl was played by Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence was nominated for an Academy Award, as was Debra’s film and screenplay. In 2018, she directed Leave No Trace, a story about a father with PTSD trying to raise his teen daughter off the grid when some well-meaning people intervene and change the course of their lives. Starring Ben Foster and newcomer Thomasin Mckenzie Harcourt, Leave No Trace has been on multiple Top Ten lists, and won Debra the Best Director award at the 2019 LAFCA awards ceremony. The film that Debra has chosen to discuss is Samuel Fuller's classic noir, Pickup on South Street. This is a personal favorite of Debra's and it becomes clear with how much appreciation and thought she has for the film. Debra discusses how she is able to create realistic dialogue for people who aren't from her "bougie, liberal" world. She talks about working with actress Dale Dickey, and why people love watching her on screen. Debra also elaborates on the use of guns in cinema, how we rely on them to tell stories, and how she is trying to "restore meaning to the woundable body." You can watch Leave No Trace on Amazon Prime. If you haven't seen it yet, go watch Pickup on South Street. With April Wolfe and Debra Granik. You can let us know what you think of Switchblade Sisters on Twitter or Facebook. Or email us at switchbladesisters@maximumfun.org. Produced by Casey O'Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

Mission encre noire Tome 23 Chapitre 285 Front criminel, Une histoire du polar américain de 1919 à nos jours de Benoît Tadié paru en 2018 aux éditions PUF. Le polar est un genre majeur de la littérature aujourd'hui. Un livre sur quatre est un polar. Le genre s'est très vite popularisé aux États-unis, en réaction à l'avènement d'une société industrielle qui édifie sa fortune sur un état d'esprit très éloigné de ses pères fondateurs.  Le polar c'est le «soleil noir» qui se lève sur ce monde. Benoît Tadié s'immerge dans cet univers de violence sociale pour nous raconter son histoire du polar américain. L'ouvrage regorge de références inédites, d'écrivain-e-s à redécouvrir, l'auteur nous ouvre la voie vers les arcanes d'une littérature subversive et innovatrice. Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson êtes-vous là ? Nous recevons Benoît Tadié à Mission encre noire pour faire tourner les tables et parler aux fantômes légendaires du polar américain. Extrait: «Ce qui se perd dans ce jeu de métamorphoses, c'est l'essence de l'individu et des choses, leur identité, leur intégrité, dans un univers où l'apparence prend le pas sur l'essence, où le character disparaît au profit d'une personality interchangeable, qu'on peut acheter ou fabriquer de toutes pièces. Le discours intérieur de Philip Marlowe, qui déconstruit la machine à falsifier de Hollywood, est lui-même une manifestation de ce character: sa résistance à une civilisation mensongère est le vrai sujet des récits de Chandler.» La mort du petit coeur de Daniel Woodrell paru en 2018 aux éditions Rivages/Noir. Pour reprendre la classification de Benoît Tadié, ce roman culte américain, republié chez Rivages, est à classer entre le Tobacco road façon Erskin Caldwell et la chronique noire de James Ellroy. La violence sociale qui s'exprime dans ce Missouri rural est l'image d'une Amérique abîmée dans ses rêves de grandeur. Shug traverse son adolescence sur un fil. Son père/beau-père, Red Akins est un truand à la petite semaine. Il sort de prison. Avec Basil Powney, les deux lascars parachèvent l'éducation de Shuggy à force de braquages minables pour trouver de la drogue ou de l'alcool. ce n'est pas la famille improbable Akins qui y changera grand-chose. Sa mère le pourra-t-elle, l'envoûtante Glenda ? Personnage fantastique et symbolique de cette Amérique déchue, le couple Glenda/Shuggy incarne le crépuscule de la famille idéale américaine. Le rêve américain est mort, le saviez-vous ? oserez-vous y croire ? Attention, Denis Lehane vous aura prévenu: « Je ne connais personne qui ait lu ce roman et qui n'ait été saisi et transformé par lui.» Extrait: «Nous n'avons jamais eu peur, Glenda et moi, de vivre à proximité du champ des morts de notre bourgade, vu que nous ne leur avons jamais fait de crasses. C'était l'idée générale, tout du moins. Et Glenda l,a ressassée je ne sais combien de fois, aussi loin que je me rappelle. Elle le répétait particulièrement fréquemment quand j'étais petit, à l'heure où j'allais me coucher: « Ils sont tous sous terre, chéri, et ils n'ont rien contre toi.» Toutes nos fenêtres, y compris celle qui se trouvait près de mon lit, donnaient sur ces tombes. Il me semble que toutes les aubes et tous les crépuscules que j'ai passé à les contempler depuis cette fenêtre me poussaient de plus en plus à la solitude et à la malfaisance. Il y avait aussi des chênes majestueux et des pins sentinelles dans ce cimetière, et des écureuils cavalaient librement au milieu des trépassés, mais ce sont ces funèbres rangées de tombes qui impriment le plus durablement leur marque dans votre mémoire. C'est très exactement ce qu'on voit en les regardant: les morts d'hier et d'avant hier, les morts d'aujourd'hui, et tous ceux qui sont morts dans l'intervalle.» Quand se lève le brouillard rouge de Robin Cook paru en 2018 aux éditions Rivages/Noir. Cette fois-ci nous sommes en Angleterre, avec Robin Cook, le plus francophile des écrivains britanniques qui nous a quitté en 1994. Quand se lève le brouillard rouge est son ultime roman, republié aux éditions Rivages. Gust sort de prison. Pour tenter de se refaire la cerise rapidement, il accepte un dernier casse: mettre la main sur deux mille passeports britanniques qui valent son pesant d'or sur le marché noir. Alors que les cadavres s'empilent autour de lui, Gust voit son destin se lier, avec celui d'ex-agents du KGB, de la pègre londonienne, de son ex-amoureuse Petal, les services secret britanniques ou d'un étrange policier, qu'il a, pour fâcheuse habitude de rencontrer dans des bars mal famés. Oubliez l'internet ou le cellulaire dans ce Londres des années 90! Robin Cook n'a pas son pareil pour décrire la descente aux enfers d'un homme, qui y vit déjà. Même si la saleté des bas fonds de la capitale vous rebute, sachez que l'auteur rive son clou à une société Thatcherienne qu'il déteste. Gust lance son avis de défaite cinglant: Je suis cette Angleterre, c'est moi. Et ça fait mal. Robin Cook un écrivain à lire d'urgence. Extrait: «Gust sortit dans l'après-midi ; il pleuvait à verse. Les rares SDF de Frith Street restaient accroupis sous les entrées d'immeubles, le plus loin possible de la rue, immobiles sous leurs couvertures, leurs sacs en plastique près de leurs genoux, le regard fixé sur une autre planète ; des cadres pressés pataugeaient à la recherche d'un taxi, le Standard sur la tête. mais Gust ne faisait pas attention à la pluie. Il avait besoin de réfléchir, et cela lui était plus facile à l'extérieur que dans l'appartement, où tout lui rappelait Petal. Elle incarnait un certain aspect de la situation où il se trouvait ; mais il y avait un autre aspect - Manny, Sladen - qu'il ne parvenait pas à cerner. S'il voulait s'en sortir indemne, il allait devoir comprendre ce qui lui arrivait, et surtout ne pas se tromper dans ses conclusions.»

Mission encre noire Tome 23 Chapitre 285 Front criminel, Une histoire du polar américain de 1919 à nos jours de Benoît Tadié paru en 2018 aux éditions PUF. Le polar est un genre majeur de la littérature aujourd'hui. Un livre sur quatre est un polar. Le genre s'est très vite popularisé aux États-unis, en réaction à l'avènement d'une société industrielle qui édifie sa fortune sur un état d'esprit très éloigné de ses pères fondateurs.  Le polar c'est le «soleil noir» qui se lève sur ce monde. Benoît Tadié s'immerge dans cet univers de violence sociale pour nous raconter son histoire du polar américain. L'ouvrage regorge de références inédites, d'écrivain-e-s à redécouvrir, l'auteur nous ouvre la voie vers les arcanes d'une littérature subversive et innovatrice. Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson êtes-vous là ? Nous recevons Benoît Tadié à Mission encre noire pour faire tourner les tables et parler aux fantômes légendaires du polar américain. Extrait: «Ce qui se perd dans ce jeu de métamorphoses, c'est l'essence de l'individu et des choses, leur identité, leur intégrité, dans un univers où l'apparence prend le pas sur l'essence, où le character disparaît au profit d'une personality interchangeable, qu'on peut acheter ou fabriquer de toutes pièces. Le discours intérieur de Philip Marlowe, qui déconstruit la machine à falsifier de Hollywood, est lui-même une manifestation de ce character: sa résistance à une civilisation mensongère est le vrai sujet des récits de Chandler.» La mort du petit coeur de Daniel Woodrell paru en 2018 aux éditions Rivages/Noir. Pour reprendre la classification de Benoît Tadié, ce roman culte américain, republié chez Rivages, est à classer entre le Tobacco road façon Erskin Caldwell et la chronique noire de James Ellroy. La violence sociale qui s'exprime dans ce Missouri rural est l'image d'une Amérique abîmée dans ses rêves de grandeur. Shug traverse son adolescence sur un fil. Son père/beau-père, Red Akins est un truand à la petite semaine. Il sort de prison. Avec Basil Powney, les deux lascars parachèvent l'éducation de Shuggy à force de braquages minables pour trouver de la drogue ou de l'alcool. ce n'est pas la famille improbable Akins qui y changera grand-chose. Sa mère le pourra-t-elle, l'envoûtante Glenda ? Personnage fantastique et symbolique de cette Amérique déchue, le couple Glenda/Shuggy incarne le crépuscule de la famille idéale américaine. Le rêve américain est mort, le saviez-vous ? oserez-vous y croire ? Attention, Denis Lehane vous aura prévenu: « Je ne connais personne qui ait lu ce roman et qui n'ait été saisi et transformé par lui.» Extrait: «Nous n'avons jamais eu peur, Glenda et moi, de vivre à proximité du champ des morts de notre bourgade, vu que nous ne leur avons jamais fait de crasses. C'était l'idée générale, tout du moins. Et Glenda l,a ressassée je ne sais combien de fois, aussi loin que je me rappelle. Elle le répétait particulièrement fréquemment quand j'étais petit, à l'heure où j'allais me coucher: « Ils sont tous sous terre, chéri, et ils n'ont rien contre toi.» Toutes nos fenêtres, y compris celle qui se trouvait près de mon lit, donnaient sur ces tombes. Il me semble que toutes les aubes et tous les crépuscules que j'ai passé à les contempler depuis cette fenêtre me poussaient de plus en plus à la solitude et à la malfaisance. Il y avait aussi des chênes majestueux et des pins sentinelles dans ce cimetière, et des écureuils cavalaient librement au milieu des trépassés, mais ce sont ces funèbres rangées de tombes qui impriment le plus durablement leur marque dans votre mémoire. C'est très exactement ce qu'on voit en les regardant: les morts d'hier et d'avant hier, les morts d'aujourd'hui, et tous ceux qui sont morts dans l'intervalle.» Quand se lève le brouillard rouge de Robin Cook paru en 2018 aux éditions Rivages/Noir. Cette fois-ci nous sommes en Angleterre, avec Robin Cook, le plus francophile des écrivains britanniques qui nous a quitté en 1994. Quand se lève le brouillard rouge est son ultime roman, republié aux éditions Rivages. Gust sort de prison. Pour tenter de se refaire la cerise rapidement, il accepte un dernier casse: mettre la main sur deux mille passeports britanniques qui valent son pesant d'or sur le marché noir. Alors que les cadavres s'empilent autour de lui, Gust voit son destin se lier, avec celui d'ex-agents du KGB, de la pègre londonienne, de son ex-amoureuse Petal, les services secret britanniques ou d'un étrange policier, qu'il a, pour fâcheuse habitude de rencontrer dans des bars mal famés. Oubliez l'internet ou le cellulaire dans ce Londres des années 90! Robin Cook n'a pas son pareil pour décrire la descente aux enfers d'un homme, qui y vit déjà. Même si la saleté des bas fonds de la capitale vous rebute, sachez que l'auteur rive son clou à une société Thatcherienne qu'il déteste. Gust lance son avis de défaite cinglant: Je suis cette Angleterre, c'est moi. Et ça fait mal. Robin Cook un écrivain à lire d'urgence. Extrait: «Gust sortit dans l'après-midi ; il pleuvait à verse. Les rares SDF de Frith Street restaient accroupis sous les entrées d'immeubles, le plus loin possible de la rue, immobiles sous leurs couvertures, leurs sacs en plastique près de leurs genoux, le regard fixé sur une autre planète ; des cadres pressés pataugeaient à la recherche d'un taxi, le Standard sur la tête. mais Gust ne faisait pas attention à la pluie. Il avait besoin de réfléchir, et cela lui était plus facile à l'extérieur que dans l'appartement, où tout lui rappelait Petal. Elle incarnait un certain aspect de la situation où il se trouvait ; mais il y avait un autre aspect - Manny, Sladen - qu'il ne parvenait pas à cerner. S'il voulait s'en sortir indemne, il allait devoir comprendre ce qui lui arrivait, et surtout ne pas se tromper dans ses conclusions.»

KELLY J. FORD revised and sharpened her debut novel, COTTONMOUTHS, in Grub Street's Novel Incubator program with our second guest, MICHELLE HOOVER. She and James talk about crappy drafts, depression, the woods vs. the forest, coming out narratives, and tents full of mannequin parts. She also describes her process, including using formulas and borrowing the scaffolding of other narratives. Then James asks Michelle about novel writing and workshopping.     -  Kelly J. Ford: http://kellyjford.com/ Kelly and James discuss:  Daniel Woodrell (intro) Sarah Waters (intro)  "Hanging Judge" Parker  Flannery O'Connor Paula Abdul FINGERHUT MAGAZINE Solid Gold Dancers Lisa Borders E.B. Moore FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Laura van den Berg Chip Cheek Cam Terwilliger Diane Johnson THE END OF CALIFORNIA by Steve Yarbrough FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley RE JANE by Patricia Park  THE MIDDLESTEINS by Jamie Attenberg DARK PLACES by Gillian Flynn  LITTLE CHILDREN by Tom Perrotta  WRITTEN ON THE BODY by Jeanette Winterson THE PASSION by Jeanette Winterson THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin Maya Angelou Sam Cooke HUNGER by Roxanne Gay   - Michelle Hoover: http://www.michelle-hoover.com/ Michelle and James Discuss: Jay Neugeboren Noy Holland BOTTOMLAND by Michelle Hoover Ian Stansel Brian Evenson THRILL ME by Benjamin Percy HALF IN LOVE WITH DEATH by Emily Ross Rachel Barenbaum IDYLL THREATS by Stephanie Gayle   IDYLL FEARS by Stephanie Gayle  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Ian Stansel's fantastic first novel THE LAST COWBOYS OF SAN GERONIMO plays with the genre expectations of Westerns by setting the murder-revenge in northern California wine country. James and Ian discuss storytelling economy, bringing dead characters to life, horse-y literature, and conclude, "There are a lot of books." Then editor Naomi Gibbs and James discuss her career path working on 'orphaned' novels like Ian's.     - Ian and James discuss: SHOTGUN LOVESONGS by Nickolas Butler  Farrar, Straus & Giroux  Graywolf  Roxane Gay  Sherman Alexie  Cormac McCarthy  THE SISTERS BROTHERS by Patrick DeWitt  NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles  Louis L'Amour  Larry McMurtry  The Kentucky Book Fair  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  BLACK BEAUTY by Anna Sewell  THE MARE by Mary Gaitskill  Dick Francis  THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS by Bruce Machart  THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (remake) dir by Antoine Fuqua  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (film) dir by the Coen Bros  THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald  Bob Dylan  Daniel Woodrell  HELL OR HIGH WATER dir by David Mackenzie  - Naomi and James discuss: Whitman College  Counterpoint Press  Columbia Publishing Course  Bloomsbury Publishing Gary Snyder  Jack Shoemaker  Politics & Prose  Craig Johnson  Cormac McCarthy  Larry McMurtry  Edward Abbey -  http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Gemma Creagh sat down with director Juanita Wilson to talk about her latest film Tomato Red. Juanita explains how she went about adapting Daniel Woodrell's book for film, working on the the look and feel of the film and casting the right actors. http://filmireland.net/

Jesse Donaldson tells James about the Oxycodone scourge, the effect it has had on his home state of Kentucky, and how it informed his debut novel, THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR. He also recommends writing while gardening, and recalls the time he drove to New York with a tape-playing robot. Plus Lauren Cerand joins the show to discuss book publicity.    Jesse and James Discuss: FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson  PHAIDON  ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE Kenyon College  Lewis Hyde  P.F. Kluge Breece D'J Pancake  Denis Johnson ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark Richard  Amy Hempel  Raymond Carver  Graham Greene  Ernest Hemingway  Jorge Luis Borges  Becca Wadlinger George Saunders  Mary Karr  RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco  Samuel Beckett  ELBOW ROOM by James Alan McPherson "Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake  Raymond Chandler  DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones  ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren  THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene  Edith Wharton  Daniel Woodrell  FALCONER by John Cheever  Ross Macdonald  KC Constantine  Jamie Gordon  SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan  Michael Parker         

The Alaskan Laundry (Mariner Books) A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing, as far as the icy Bering Sea  Tara Marconi has made her way to The Rock, a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn't felt at home in a long while. Her mother's death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and her father. But in the majestic, mysterious, and tough boundary-lands of Alaska she begins to work her way up the fishing ladder from hatchery assistant all the way to King crabber. She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly, but here she learns anew what it means to work, to connect, and in buying and fixing up an old tugboat how to make a home she knows is her own. A beautiful evocation of a place that can't help but change us and a testament to the unshakable lure of home, The Alaskan Laundry also offers an unforgettable story of one woman's journey from isolation back to the possibility of love. Praise for The Alaskan Laundry "This novel is a rarity -- a gripping, straight-forward, old-fashioned novel about coming of age (a woman, no less) in Alaska. It is reminiscent of the best of Wallace Stegner."--Richard Ford  "This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart."--Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son "The Alaskan Laundry is a gorgeous and powerful novel that succeeds both as a page-turning adventure story and an evocative exploration of the meaning ofhome. With acute psychological precision and a naturalist's attention to detail, Brendan Jones has created a hauntingly beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time."--Molly Antopol, author of The Unamericans  "A taut, page-turning narrative, an indomitable heroine, and a rich cast of characters all steeped ina world where you can smell the tang of kelp at low tide, the creak of seiners at their moorings, hear the rustling of the Southeast Alaska rain forest. The Alaskan Laundry plunges the reader into the heart and soul of a unique commercial fishing culture and the story of Tara Marconi, as she struggles for respect, love, inner peace, and a place to call her own. A cinematic tour de force, it offers up an empowering message of hope and resilience."-- Nick Jans, author of A Wolf Called Romeo  "There are the easy journeys, the ones that take us where we mean to travel, and there are those we shy from, the dark and uncertain treks of the soul. Without flinching, nineteen-year-old Tara ventures from South Philly to the male-dominated Rock, an island off the coast of Alaska. True to her boxer instincts, Tara comes out swinging, unsure what the island will make of her. As layers of her former life wash away, she proves as raw and tender as the landscape, as striking and unforgettable. A promising debut, true to the core a novel of grit and redemption."--Deb Vanasse, author of Cold Spell andOut of the Wilderness  "The Alaskan Laundry is a novel of bracing air that gets deep into your lungs. As Tara Marconi reinvents herself in Alaska, we see all facets of the American dream of self-reliance and boundless possibility play out on the stage of the Last Frontier. A strong, singular person grows in these pages. Like a protagonist in a Daniel Woodrell novel, she is stubborn, heroic, and capable of anything."--Will Chancellor, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall "A fresh voice in contemporary realism arrives on the scene in this coming-of-age novel. Fierce and flawed, protagonist Tara Marconi leaves the Lower 48 behind to cut her teeth on the Alaskan wilderness, searching for salvation in the notion that 'people come to Alaska to wash themselves clean.' Jones's dynamic love of America's last frontier comes through in spare, gripping prose."--Suzanne Rindell, author of The Other Typist After receiving a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, where he boxed for the Blues team, Brendan Jones made his living in Alaska in carpentry and commercial fishing. He has published work in the New York Times, Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, Popular Woodworking, The Huffington Post, and recorded commentaries for NPR. A recipient of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the MacDowell Colony, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University

This week on "A Way with Words": If everyone on the planet spoke a single language, wouldn't that make life a whole lot easier? For that matter, is a common world language even possible? Maybe for a minute or so--until new words and phrases start springing up. Also, did you ever wonder why the guy at your local coffee shop is a barista and not a baristo? There's a good grammatical reason. Finally, pass the gorp--we have the scoop on the name of this crunchy snack. Plus, gorp, double bubble, concertina wire, the story behind the movie title Winter's Bone, safe and sound, and a couple vs. a pair.FULL DETAILSThe finalists at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament wear giant headphones to block out the noise of the crowd and color commentary. As it happens, the white noise being pumped into them is the pre-recorded sound of a United Nations cocktail party.Male baristas aren't called baristos for the same reason that male Sandinistas aren't Sandinistos. There's a certain class of nouns in both Italian and Spanish where the definite article changes to indicate gender, but the noun stays the same.If you need a password that contains at least eight characters and one capital, there's always Mickey Minnie Pluto Huey Louie Dewey Donald Goofy Sacramento.Contrary to popular belief, gorp is not an acronym for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts. Earlier recipes for this crunchy snack contained all kinds of things, like soybeans, sunflower seeds, oats, pretzels, raisins, Wheat Chex and kelp, as in John McPhee's famous essay, "Travels in Georgia."Working double bubble is when you get paid double for working overtime or outside your normal work hours, and it's a classic bit of British rhyming slang.Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski invites his alter ego, Dr. Word, to present a quiz about Latin names for working stiffs.If someone's impatiently pounding on your front door, you might respond Keep your pants on! The origin of this phrase is unclear, though it may be related to keep your shirt on, and other expressions that refer to partially disrobing before a fistfight. To fill your boots means "to go after something with gusto." Similarly, the tableside injunction Fill your boots! is an invitation to chow down.The idiom safe and sound tells the story of the English language in three words: safe comes from French, and sound is a Germanic word with the same root as Gesundheit, meaning "health."Concertina wire, the coiled barbed wire that's compact and easy to move around, takes its name from the concertina, an accordion-like instrument. You wouldn't say the NASA launched a space shuttle, or you watched March Madness on the CBS. Similarly, initialisms like NSA and FBI are sometimes said without the article, especially by insiders.A quiddler is someone who wastes his energy on trifles. If we ever settled on one universal language that everyone spoke, it would last about a minute before variants of slang started popping up.The title Winter's Bone, an acclaimed film based on Daniel Woodrell's country noir novel, is an idiom the author created by personifying the season, which throws the main character a bone. Oxford University doesn't really have a mascot, so a listener asks on our Facebook page: Why not call them the Oxford Commas?A couple is not necessarily the same as a pair; it can certainly mean more than two, and it's always dependent on context.A hawk in its prime state of fitness is known as a yarak, a word that may derive from a Persian word meaning "strength, ability."To secrete means "to produce and discharge a fluid," a back-formation from secretion. But a similarly spelled verb means "to deposit in a hiding place." For both verbs, the pronunciation of the past tense, secreted, requires a long e in the middle.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2015, Wayword LLC.

Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio)  From a rising star in the indie lit world comes a striking new Acid Western in the tradition of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man or Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff.  Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them between towns. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own brand of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.  Haunting, surreal, and possessing an unsettling humor, Haints Stay will ensure Winnette's growing reputation as an imaginative stylist and one of the most striking voices of his generation.  Praise for Haints Stay “The unexpectedness of Colin Winnette's fiction is nothing less than thrilling. Haints Stay is a solid, layered work of genre-defying beauty.”—The Lit Pub “Haints Stay puts to mind the very best contemporary novels of the old West, including those by powerhouses like Charles Portis, Patrick DeWitt, Robert Coover, Oakley Hall, E.L. Doctorow and Sheriff Cormac McCarthy himself, not to mention Thomas McGuane's classic screenplays for The Missouri Breaks and Tom Horn. But Colin Winnette has his own dark and delightful and surprising agenda. Be wary. He might be the new law in town." —Sam Lipsyte “Life is nasty, brutish, and short in this noir-tinged Western... that falls somewhat uncomfortably between ‘Deadwood' and The Crying Game. It sounds like a cross between Daniel Woodrell and Elmore Leonard right up until Winnette flips the script.”—Kirkus Reviews “If the Western genre could be thought of as a pile of old stones, Haints Stay is a particular piece of lovely spit-shined agate at the top, gleaming in invitation, and under its glow the others are changed.” —Amelia Gray “Funny, brutal and haunting, Haints Stay takes the traditional Western, turns it inside out, eviscerates it, skins it, and then wears it as a duster. This is the kind of book that would make Zane Grey not only roll over in his grave but rise undead from the ground with both barrels blazing.”—Brian Evenson “From his curiously harrowing Animal Collection to the glorious guts of Fondly, I trust wherever Colin Winnette's imagination sees fit to take me. And now — with Haints Stay — we venture to the lawless old West for a story stitched out of animal skins and language that glimmers like blood diamonds. This is a dangerous novel; let's read it and risk our lives together.”—Saeed Jones “Before the novel ends, there's cannibalism, an amputation, a bloody jailhouse shoot-out, a surprise birth, and the slaughter of a town's entire population. [A] portrait of the frontier as a place where desperation and death were always near at hand.”—Publishers Weekly “I loved it. Loved it! Haints Stay had me from the very first line—the visceral ante upped and crescendoing nearly every page. Humor, gore, that wonderful unsettling feel you get when you're reading a book that excites you and kind of scares you as well?,Yes, please.”—Lindsay Hunter Colin Winnette is the author of several books, including the SPD bestseller Coyote, and Fondly, listed among Salon's "best books of 2013." His writing has appeared in the Believer, the American Reader, McSweeney's, and 9th Letter, among other places. His prizes include the NOS Book Contest (for Coyote) and Sonora Review's Short Short Fiction Prize. He was a finalist for Gulf Coast Magazine's Donald Barthelme Prize for short prose and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Award. He conducts a semi-regular interview series for Electric Literature and is an associate editor of Pank magazine. He lives in San Francisco. Karolina Waclawiak received her BFA in Screenwriting from USC School of Cinematic Arts and her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel, How To Get Into The Twin Palms, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2012. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, and The Believer (where she is also an editor). She lives in Los Angeles.

Ozarksi mägismaal elava 16.a. neiu Ree isa lahkub kodunt ja kaob jäljetult. Ree peab nüüd üksi hoolitsema kahe väikse venna ja vaimuhaige ema eest. Ta saab teada, et isa on pantinud kautsjoniks kogu oma vara ja kui ta mõne päeva pärast kohtusse ei ilmu, tõstetakse nad kõik kodunt välja. Ree suundub sugulaste juurde isa otsima, kuid kõik sugulased on tema vastu miskipärast tõredad… (Daniel Woodrell. Külm halastus. Loeb Kristi Aule.)

Fourth of July Creek (Ecco) Smith Henderson, author of one of the most anticipated debut novels of the season, discusses his work with novelist Brian McGreevy (Hemlock Grove). In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. Praise for Fourth of July Creek: “This book left me awestruck; a stunning debut which reads like the work of a writer at the height of his power…Fourth of July Creek is a masterful achievement and Smith Henderson is certain to end up a household name.”—Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son “Fourth of July Creek knocked me flat. This gorgeous, full-bodied novel seems to contain all of America at what was, in retrospect, a pivotal moment in its history...Smith Henderson has delivered nothing less than a masterpiece of a novel."—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “Fourth of July Creek cannot possibly be Smith Henderson's first book. Its scope is audacious, its range virtuosic, its gaze steady and true. A riveting story written in a seductive and relentlessly authentic rural American vernacular, this is the kind of novel I wish I'd written.”—Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn “Fourth of July Creek is an astonishing read. The writing is energetic and precise. Henderson has a mastery of scale that allows this particular place and these particular people to illuminate who we are as Americans...I could not recommend this book more highly.”—Kevin Powers, bestselling author of The Yellow Birds “Tremendously satisfying—think Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone...or Jimmy McNulty...set...in...another kind of violent American wilderness...[a] mesmerizing accomplishment. I cannot think of a finer first novel; it's hard, in fact, to think of a finer second, third, or fourth one, either.”—Antonya NelsonSmith Henderson was born and raised in western Montana. His family were in the timber industry, ranching, and other trades, but he was the first to go to college, earning a Classics degree. He worked with traumatized children for a few years, and briefly as prison guard. He took writing jobs where he could find them, until he was admitted to the MFA program at the University of Texas. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of journals and been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. In 2011 he was the Philip Roth Resident and Bucknell University and won the Emerging Writer Award in Fiction from the PEN Foundation.  Brian McGreevy is the author of Hemlock Grove, which was adapted into a Netflix series of the same name. He is also a founding partner of the production company El Jefe, with multiple film and television projects in development. A former James Michener Fellow in fiction at the University of Texas, he currently lives in Los Angeles. 

This week on "A Way with Words": If everyone on the planet spoke a single language, wouldn't that make life a whole lot easier? For that matter, is a common world language even possible? Maybe for a minute or so--until new words and phrases start springing up. Also, did you ever wonder why the guy at your local coffee shop is a barista and not a baristo? There's a good grammatical reason. Finally, pass the gorp--we have the scoop on the name of this crunchy snack. Plus, gorp, double bubble, concertina wire, the story behind the movie title Winter's Bone, safe and sound, and a couple vs. a pair.FULL DETAILSThe finalists at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament wear giant headphones to block out the noise of the crowd and color commentary. As it happens, the white noise being pumped into them is the pre-recorded sound of a United Nations cocktail party.Male baristas aren't called baristos for the same reason that male Sandinistas aren't Sandinistos. There's a certain class of nouns in both Italian and Spanish where the definite article changes to indicate gender, but the noun stays the same.If you need a password that contains at least eight characters and one capital, there's always Mickey Minnie Pluto Huey Louie Dewey Donald Goofy Sacramento.Contrary to popular belief, gorp is not an acronym for Good Old Raisins and Peanuts. Earlier recipes for this crunchy snack contained all kinds of things, like soybeans, sunflower seeds, oats, pretzels, raisins, Wheat Chex and kelp, as in John McPhee's famous essay, "Travels in Georgia."Working double bubble is when you get paid double for working overtime or outside your normal work hours, and it's a classic bit of British rhyming slang.Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski invites his alter ego, Dr. Word, to present a quiz about Latin names for working stiffs.If someone's impatiently pounding on your front door, you might respond Keep your pants on! The origin of this phrase is unclear, though it may be related to keep your shirt on, and other expressions that refer to partially disrobing before a fistfight. To fill your boots means "to go after something with gusto." Similarly, the tableside injunction Fill your boots! is an invitation to chow down.The idiom safe and sound tells the story of the English language in three words: safe comes from French, and sound is a Germanic word with the same root as Gesundheit, meaning "health."Concertina wire, the coiled barbed wire that's compact and easy to move around, takes its name from the concertina, an accordion-like instrument. You wouldn't say the NASA launched a space shuttle, or you watched March Madness on the CBS. Similarly, initialisms like NSA and FBI are sometimes said without the article, especially by insiders.A quiddler is someone who wastes his energy on trifles. If we ever settled on one universal language that everyone spoke, it would last about a minute before variants of slang started popping up.The title Winter's Bone, an acclaimed film based on Daniel Woodrell's country noir novel, is an idiom the author created by personifying the season, which throws the main character a bone. Oxford University doesn't really have a mascot, so a listener asks on our Facebook page: Why not call them the Oxford Commas?A couple is not necessarily the same as a pair; it can certainly mean more than two, and it's always dependent on context.A hawk in its prime state of fitness is known as a yarak, a word that may derive from a Persian word meaning "strength, ability."To secrete means "to produce and discharge a fluid," a back-formation from secretion. But a similarly spelled verb means "to deposit in a hiding place." For both verbs, the pronunciation of the past tense, secreted, requires a long e in the middle.This episode was hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett.....Support for A Way with Words comes from The Ken Blanchard Companies, celebrating 35 years of making a leadership difference with Situational Leadership II, the leadership model designed to boost effectiveness, impact, and employee engagement. More about how Blanchard can help your executives and organizational leaders at kenblanchard.com/leadership.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2014, Wayword LLC.

What do you do when your meth-cooking father goes missing in the Missouri Ozarks? Ask your relatives? Go to the cops? Dig for evidence yourself? These are the options facing Ree Dolly, protagonist of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel Winter's Bone. Woodrell's described his Ozark-based work as "country noir" - a term we spend a minute or two attempting to define before launching into our discussion of the novel that was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Jennifer Lawrence. Bear with us as this episode gets started. We clearly needed to talk about Christmas trees, rowdy neighbors, and nine-volt batteries before discussing family and violence in rural America.

What do you do when your meth-cooking father goes missing in the Missouri Ozarks? Ask your relatives? Go to the cops? Dig for evidence yourself? These are the options facing Ree Dolly, protagonist of Daniel Woodrell's 2006 novel Winter's Bone. Woodrell's described his Ozark-based work as "country noir" - a term we spend a minute or two attempting to define before launching into our discussion of the novel that was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Jennifer Lawrence. Bear with us as this episode gets started. We clearly needed to talk about Christmas trees, rowdy neighbors, and nine-volt batteries before discussing family and violence in rural America.

Steve Weddle talks with Frank Bill about his new book, DONNYBROOK. An excerpt from the book can be found at the DoSomeDamage blog. (UPDATE: Er, not so much anymore. Head to Frank Bill's blog if you want details on DONNYBROOK.)Here's what folks are saying about the book: "Donnybrook is some serious hillbilly-noir that had my ears ringing by the end. Open the first page... and duck." --Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist's Handbook and Dermaphoria “Dark, grim, and achingly beautiful. Frank Bill is one of the most original and compelling voices in this new generation of crime writers, and Donnybrook is nothing short of stunning.” -- John Rector, author of The Cold Kiss and The Grove "Donnybrook is a bellow of rage from the American heartland, and Bill is the new bard of the disaffected rural underclass." -- Roger Smith, acclaimed author of Wake Up Dead "With Donnybrook, Frank Bill has crafted one of the most fearless debut novels I've read in years. Bill has taken the rural noir traditions established by such masters as Larry Brown and Daniel Woodrell and has completely shattered them and reshaped those traditions into the methamphetamine fueled nightmare that is Donnybrook."--Keith Rawson, editor/publisher, Crimefactory Magazine “Donnybrook is the culmination of Frank Bill's craft and style. The story gleams with ruined characters who reflect our drug-adulterated times, and dialogue that captures a singularly American desperation." -- Elaine Ash, editor Beat to a Pulp DONNYBROOK at Carmichael's in Louisville.AS ALWAYS:You can get the podcast by1. Right-clicking on the title up there at the top (or, if you have one of those Apple computers, whatever you people do)2. Visiting the iTunes music storeor3. Visiting the Feedburner page.

SEASON 2, EPISODE 2This week top-shelf author REED FARREL COLEMAN stopped by DSD HQ to chat with Jay Stringer about the new book and more.INNOCENT MONSTER from Tyrus Books:Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager’s family apart and six years since Moe brushed the dust off his PI license. But when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse, Moe takes a deep breath and plunges back into the icy, opaque waters of secrets and lies. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah’s dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. Three weeks into the investigation, the cops have gotten nowhere and the parents have gotten desperate. Desperation, the door through which Moe Prager always enters, swings wide open. Just as in Sashi’s paintings, there’s much more to the case than one can see at a glance. With the help of an ex-football star, Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, trying to get a handle on where the art stops and the commerce begins. Much to Moe’s surprise and disgust, he discovers that Sashi is, on the one hand, revered as a cash cow and, on the other, reviled as a fraud and a joke. Suspects abound beyond the usual predators and pedophiles, for it is those closest to Sashi in life that have the most to gain from her death. Cruel ironies lurk around every corner, beneath every painting, and behind every door. Almost nothing is what it seems.Innocent Monster is a book of children and parents, of lives lost and found. It is a variation on the theme of good and evil, each often wearing the other’s disguise. Beware the innocent monster for it need not hide itself and it lives closely among us: sometimes as close as the mirror...Praise for Innocent Monster"Sashi Bluntstone, the 11-year-old Next New Thing on the New York art scene, has been abducted, and Moe Prager—former NYPD cop and former PI—is asked by his estranged daughter, Sarah, to join the search. He expects only tragedy; Sashi has already been missing for three weeks, and he hasn’t been a PI for seven years. Now a well-to-do wine merchant, Moe agrees, primarily to attempt to restore his relationship with Sarah. He quickly learns that nothing increases the value of paintings faster than the death of the painter. Suspects abound: wealthy, self-important collectors; greedy gallery owners; odious rival artists; even the victim's parents. But Moe abides. This sixth Moe Prager novel is pretty much note-perfect. Coleman's take on the art world as a den of iniquity is priceless, as is Moe himself—intelligent, street smart, and tough, especially for a sixtysomething. He’s also sophisticated, despite seeing himself as a “poor schmuck from Brooklyn.” He’s a mensch, and his bone-deep world weariness and mordant sense of humor should enthrall lovers of old-school, tough-talking, loner private eyes (think Loren D. Estleman's Amos Walker)."—Booklist (starred review)"In Shamus-winner Coleman's darkly impressive sixth Moe Prager mystery (after 2008's Empty Ever After), the retired Brooklyn PI takes on a baffling missing person case only because his estranged daughter, Sarah, begs him to help. In the three weeks since art prodigy Sashi Bluntstone, the 11-year-old daughter of Sarah's childhood friend Candy Castleman, disappeared from a walk on the beach near her Long Island home, the police have found no trace of the girl, who "skyrocketed to prominence at age four when her Abstract Expressionist paintings... began selling for tens of thousands of dollars." Prager, who encounters a host of ugly characters, including parents Max and Candy, who aren't telling all they know, and resentful painter Nathan Martyr, becomes increasingly sure that Sashi is dead, but keeps slogging along. His past as a cop, his guilt over his wife's murder, and his current career as a wine merchant make Prager a complex character well suited to handle a complex mystery."—Publishers WeeklyTOUR DATES:Oct. 7, 2010, 7-9 pmMysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., NYCLaunch Party for Innocent MonsterOct. 14-17, 2010Bouchercon 2010, San FranciscoOct. 15, Friday, 8.30 am: Romance to Murder panel, moderatorOct. 16, Saturday, 3 pm: Monkey is BackOct. 18, 2010, 6.30 pmMurder by the Book2342 Bissonnet St., Houston, 713-524-8597with S.J. Rozan and Tom FranklinOct. 19, 2010, TBABookPeople603 N. Lamar, Austin TX, 512-472-5050with S.J. RozanOct. 20, 2010, TBAThe Poisoned Pen4014 N Goldwater Blvd., Suite 101, Scottsdale, Arizona, 480-947-2974with S.J. RozanNov. 5, 2010Noir Con 2010Philadelphia9-10 am: Pornography in Noir Fiction: Reed, Jay Gertzman, Christa Faust4.40-5.40 pm: Writers on Noir: Reed, Daniel Woodrell, Vicki Hendricks, Seth Harwood with Cameron AshleyNov. 7, 2010Clinton's Book Shop, 12 East Main St., Clinton, NJ, 908-735-88111-3 pmNov. 13, 2010Murder and Mayhem in MuskegoMuskego Public LibraryS73 W16663 Janesville Rd, Muskego, Wisconsin262-971-2101Nov. 15, 2010Once Upon a Crime Minneapolis, MinnesotaThe Song O' The Podcast is "Riding on the Subway" by Jesse Malin, off the album "Fine Art of Self-Destruction," which be on ye olde itooons.AS ALWAYS:You can get the podcast by1. Right-clicking on the title up there at the top (or, if you have one of those Apple computers, whatever you people do)2. Visiting the iTunes music storeor3. Visiting the Feedburner page.