Welcome to the first episode of Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. Each month I’ll talk to an author about a book from their back catalog, then take a look at what they have coming up.
In this episode, James Grady and I dive deep into:
• Riffing on Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest for Steeltown
• Visiting Youngstown and finding an underground casino … five years before the FBI
• 58 car bombings in a year
• “The Bug” (IYKYK)
• Hammett’s murder-for-hire contract
• The killing of union organizer Frank Little
• Organized crime in the heartland
• Bruce Springsteen, the greatest author of a generation
• Next time it will be STEALTOWN with an A
• Changing pop culture with Six Days of the Condor
• Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
• Starting a new crime trilogy, and writing about working people
Thanks for joining me! Grab yourself a coffee and pull up a chair. I’m glad you’re here.
— Eric (your host)
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