Bruce Omar Yates and The Muslim Cowboy

"This book is begging to be written...It has this a frontier-ness to it..."



Bruce Omar Yates is here to discuss his upcoming novel published by Dead Ink Books, THE MUSLIM COWBOY . 

In a contemporary and entertaining novel set in aftermath of the Iraq war, a man who is obsessed with old Western movies dresses in double denim and roams a lawless landscape in search of his own Western story. 



Rippling Points



1.32 - Bruce's family and how these fed into ideas about a 'muslim cowboy'

4.30 - Nameless and speechless: playing with the archetype of the cowboy

6.20 - Song writing in Nashville to writing this novel

8.40 - Iraq as the setting for the novel

12.00 - Removing binaries around what is good and not good

17.33 - A camel and child - the other characters

20.53 - The novel as a sandbox

25.30 - The act of making his characters watch westerns



Reference Points



Aladdin (1992. Dir: John Musker and Ron Clements)

David Foster Wallace

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 

Lucky Luke - Goscinny

Once Upon a Time in the West (1969. Dir: Sergio Leone)

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)

Shane (1953. Dir: George Stevens)

True Grit (1969. Dir: Henry Hathaway)

Zadie Smith