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What is the favorite book you remember as a child?
Cujo was the first book I can recall having an impact, giving me the hunger for more. Don’t get me wrong, this book wasn’t on the school syllabus or anything. I hired it with my first library card, copping nothing more than a frown from the old lady when I handed her the book. Ah, the good old days.
What is your favorite book today?
Wow. That’s a question. Too hard. I would have to put ‘The Talisman’ up there, the collaboration between King and Straub. It’s impossible to read that book without feeling about twelve years old. I’ve read it three times, and it never fails to rekindle the childhood awe and wonder that still smoulders within. I’m also a massive fan of my dog-eared copy of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ the play written by David Mamet. It does a fantastic job of exposing the darkness lurking within us all. The highly stressful and competitive real estate sales environment is the perfect platform to let the characters run loose and for dialogue so sharp it cuts. Each character tells a story in their own right, the sum of their traumas, pain, lost loves, success, failures, envy and lust. But put them all together in this high-pressure melting pot, and it all comes to a head in an explosive finale. Love it.
Tell us about your current book in 10 words.
A traumatized man-child just trying to end the chaos.
What are you reading right now?
An ARC for a friend.
E-Reader or print? and why?
Print. The smell. The touch. The journey. Everything.
One book at a time or multiples?
One at a time.
Least favorite book you've read this year?
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle. I’d heard so many good things about it, but I came away feeling the story felt rushed and was missing huge segments. The prose was okay, but nothing groundbreaking. People have directed me towards his other work, specifically, ‘The Changeling.’
Favorite book you've read this year?
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson.
Favorite book to recommend?
The Talisman.
What would make you not finish a book?
Predictability. Poor prose. Two dimensional characters.
Drugs, filth, and a lack of human decency are starving it of hope.
Introducing Simon Dooley, our trauma-driven wannabe superhero, the relentless voice of his dead mother pleading with him to "end the chaos." Dressed in a leotard and armed only with a dozen dog poop bags, Simon's plight will find him falling in love and going head to head with the seediest characters walking the streets.
The town needed a hero... it got Reformo.
“This doesn’t have to happen.” I hold my hands out, declaring myself weapon-free. “You could turn your life around. We could unite, start teaching kids about the harmful effects of drugs and clean up these streets. What do you say?”
“Look, I don’t know who the fuck you are, Mister, but I see you ain’t right in the head. But mental or not, you can’t come on my patch and expect not to get shanked.”
Moonlight falls across his face, picking up the few hairs across his lip. Jesus Christ, how old is he? “It’s not too late,” I say. “This town can be good again. We could start a youth centre. Get funding from the council and buy a table tennis table.”
“You’re off your rocker, mate.” He tosses the knife between his hands, finishing with an impressive spin. “That might keep you happy down at the local funny farm, but folks can see angels with the stuff I sell.”
“I just want some order.”
“Well, you’re in the wrong place, mate.” He stares me down, flexing his jaw muscles. “Now, you have two options here: run like the wind, or have that lovely leotard cut to shreds.”
“It’s not a leotard.”
This time, I move first, feigning to the left but attacking from the right. Bum Fluff tries to alter course, but it’s too late, the knife cutting through the air, the blade missing my side by nothing more than an inch. We come together, the flurry of hairs on his lip dancing on the breeze.
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