We Make Our Own Monsters

“By this point in the long game, I’ve interviewed a lot of crime writers. Elmore Leonard once read me the opening chapter of a novel—while he was in the middle of typing it up. I spoke with Walter Mosley and Donald E. Westlake within the same two–hour window one Christmas Eve. Go toe–to–toe with Richard Price, and you’ll come out of it feeling like the losing end of a prizefight. But there is nothing in the world like a sit–down with Andrew Vachss.” — Clayton Moore, Kirkus, June 11, 2013

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