Thanks to everyone who came out to Vintage Wine and Book Store Saturday in ATX for Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun: Private Eyes in the Materialistic Eighties. It started small but soon grew into a full house for a great conversation about 1980s literature, culture, crime and film!🕶️
"...The trouble is, by the time you get back to being able to write what you want, you’ve forgotten what you wanted to write about in the first place.”
--Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds,
Ed Reardon’s Week
“Professional writers simply do not have the freedom to write what they want. At least, to get to the point that they can write what they want they have to show they can write what other people want. Or what other people think other people want...."
Smokey and the Bandit turns 49 today. If it weren’t for a space saga from a galaxy far, far away, it would’ve been '77’s biggest hit. Burt Reynolds starred, but Jackie Gleason flat-out steals the movie. Now, gimme a diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper, ’cause I’m in a goddamn hurry.