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What Color Are Thorne's Eyes Again? Or... The Perils of Writing A Series.
Mark Billingham’s Bloodline (July 2011) marks the eighth outing for his London detective Tom Thorne. Billingham, who has discussed the fact that Thorne is more than a mere doppelganger for himself--author and detective both live in London, have the same birthday, and more than a few favorite bands--has a love/hate relationship writing about this gumshoe. He talked to us about the joys, and pitfalls, of writing a series character.
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Michael Robotham’s Top Robberies of All Time
Michael Robotham’s The Wreckage (June 2011) ties in a bombing in Baghdad, a robbery in London and the kidnapping of an international businessman to a massive bank heist. Noting that a great robbery has the ability to turn “an ordinary criminal into a folk hero,” Robotham mined some of the greatest--and costliest--robberies in history to create a definitive list of the most spectacular robberies ever.
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Daniel Woodrell Gets the Hollywood Treatment
Daniel Woodrell has dealt with Hollywood before -- his novel Ride with the Devil was made into a 1999 film by Ang Lee -- but his experience with Winter's Bone is unique. After being adapted into a small art house feature by indie filmmaker Debra Granik, the little feature became a breakout hit at Sundance. Now it’s the art house breakout film of 2010, with a number of Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. We talked to Woodrell, whose The Bayou Trilogy is coming out in April, about suddenly being in the eye of the Oscar race, living where he writes, and the overlap between rural Missouri and the fictional St. Bruno.
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