New Evil E

Elain Flinn has a new Evil E column up, featuring an interview with author Jason Starr. Here is my contribution:

DAVID:

Jason, you’re closing in on 50…Isn’t it time to cut the hair?  Do you ever get tired of writing about creeps, crooks and cons and just want to write about a preschool teacher or something?  (not that I want you to do that…unless it’s a preschool teacher who’s also a dominatrix.)

JASON:

Whoa, Dave, I think I have about a decade to go before 50, but nope, I ain’t cuttin’ it, not until it starts falling out in a serious clip anyway, and you never know when that’ll start to happen.  We have a picture in my family of a great uncle who lived in Russia about 80 years ago.  In most of the pictures he has this thick, dark hair, and then in the next picture, boom, Kojack.  So I may wake up one day and find it all on the pillow…  But I’ll tell you what - if Barry Eisler gets a crew cut, I will too.  Deal?  If I thought of a preschool teacher who I thought would make a great character in a crime novel, I’d go for it.  But, as you say, there would have to be something off about him or her.  I think my strength is in writing about edgy people, though I think in my recent books like THE FOLLOWER, and some of the other projects I’m working on (including a graphic novel for DC) I’ve been expanding my approach, varying points of view more.

Check out the whole thing. It's good.

Comments

[Cameron Hughes]

Starr is one of the greats.

With a wonderful head of hair.

[Elaine Flinn]

Hey! Thanks for the plug!

Jason was a great interview-ee, and our resident band of interrogators asked some great questions. Naturally, I'm partial to yours, David. :)

It was fun to see Jason 'on the other side of the table', huh? :)

[Elaine Flinn]

p.s. You should see what David asks Keith Kahla, Executive Editor at St. Martin's next month on Evil E.

Talk about brass balls?

[achieve orgasms]

I will too. Deal? If I thought of a preschool teacher who I thought would make a great character in a crime novel, I’d go for it. But, as you say, there would have to be something off about him or her. I think my strength is in writing about edgy people.

[multiple orgasms]

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