Lansdale's latest book Born for Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard debuted on March 21. Texas books bookstoread TexasAuthors thrillers thrillerbooks mysteries joelansdale
."Sometimes it's about writing despicable people and despicable ideas, which doesn't necessarily mean that you're representing those as your beliefs, but that's what fiction is. That's what makes it challenging."
Dealing with dark and nasty themes is something Lansdale has embraced through his career, which has included writing horror, mysteries, Westerns, adventure yarns and even comic books. "Sometimes I do it to point at certain things and say, 'Look at this' — and not to get a gross out, but to consider what this is about and why it occurred. How we can do better," Lansdale said."Also, a lot of it's just that pure fascination we have with darkness and evil. And the reason we're fascinated by it is all of us have that element in us.
Beyond their appearance the Sundance series, which starred James Purefoy and the late Michael K. Williams, the duo has turned up in more than a dozen novels and a handful of story collections.wasn't Lansdale's first rodeo with film and television. He also wrote one of the original screenplay drafts for his noveland an upcoming George R.R. Martin short film adaptation of the Howard Waldrop's short story"Night of the Cooters," directed by and starring Vincent D'Onofrio.
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