5/29/2023 0 Comments Savage Season by Joe R. LansdaleIt sort of built momentum toward 1989, which is when Cold in July came out.įor many of us, our introduction to your work probably came via the story “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks” from the seminal anthology The Book of the Dead. And then “Tight Little Stitches” came out and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, so that was a big year. At the same time, Dead in the West came out, so I also had the small press thing going on. I feel like 1986 was a big turning point for me, because The Magic Wagon came out that year from Doubleday and got reviewed in the New York Times, so it kind of got that train going. You were a full-time writer by 1981, and about 1989 was when your work suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Lansdale’s novel Cold in July has also recently been adapted into a movie starring Michael C. His most recent works include the novel The Thicket (which critics have compared to some of Mark Twain’s books), and the feature film Christmas With the Dead, which Lansdale’s son Keith adapted from Joe’s short story of the same name (Lansdale also served as producer on the film). He’s written award-winning horror, mystery, suspense, westerns, graphic novels and comics, media tie-ins, screenplays, and mainstream literature, yet each new work fits recognizably into the East Texas-slang-filled, fast-paced, fluid storytelling style that defines the Joe R. Few writers can authentically claim to be their own distinct genre, but there’s no question that Joe R.
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