In order to learn to write, Frank Bill broke down the fiction that he loved. The lessons those books taught him have served him through a collection of short stories and two novels, the latest of which is THE SAVAGE. He and James talk about universe building, skipping the middle, and the film adaptation of DONNYBROOK. Plus, Jesse Donaldson on his tour of Kentucky for ON HOMESICKNESS.
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Frank Bill
Frank and James discuss:
BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy
DETROIT: AN AMERICAN AUTOPSY by Charlie LeDuff
BEAT TO A PULP
THE MISSOURI REVIEW
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
Jason Starr
THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson
FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk
Fyodor Dostoevsky
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway
THE ECSTATIC by Victor LaValle
JOE by Larry Brown
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson
Pink Floyd
Jamie Bell
James Badge Dale
Margaret Qualley
Frank Grillo
KINGDOM
James Landry Hebert
Tim Sutton
The Old Testament
DEADWOOD
David Milch
SUTREE by Cormac McCarthy
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy
Andrew Vachss
TRUE DETECTIVE
JAWS
SCALPED by Jason Aaron
Sean McDonald
Emily Bell
Jackson Howard
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Jesse Donaldson
Jesse and James discuss:
Odysseus
The Israelites
Michel de Montaigne
Augusten Burroughs
West Virginia University Press
IN PLACE series
Becca Wadlinger
Danielle Delph
The Wolly Worm Festival
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Parnassus Books
Square Books
LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
Carry A. Nation House
Magoffin County Historical Society
Melanie Caine
Larry Flynt
Linda Riley
TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Kevin Wilson
Brier Books
Wild Fig Books
Crystal Wilkinson
Morris Books
The Kentucky Headhunters
Brandon Atwell
George Clooney
Nick & Nina Clooney