Ep. 48: Frank Bill & Jesse Donaldson

In order to learn to write, Frank Bill broke down the fiction that he loved. The lessons those books taught him have served him through a collection of short stories and two novels, the latest of which is THE SAVAGE. He and James talk about universe building, skipping the middle, and the film adaptation of DONNYBROOK. Plus, Jesse Donaldson on his tour of Kentucky for ON HOMESICKNESS. 

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Frank Bill: http://frankbillshouseofgrit.blogspot.com/

Frank and James discuss:

BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy 

DETROIT: AN AMERICAN AUTOPSY by Charlie LeDuff 

BEAT TO A PULP 

THE MISSOURI REVIEW  

"Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin 

Jason Starr 

THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson 

FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk 

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway 

THE ECSTATIC by Victor LaValle 

JOE by Larry Brown 

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson 

Pink Floyd 

Jamie Bell 

James Badge Dale

Margaret Qualley 

Frank Grillo 

KINGDOM 

James Landry Hebert 

Tim Sutton 

The Old Testament 

DEADWOOD 

David Milch 

SUTREE by Cormac McCarthy 

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy 

Andrew Vachss 

TRUE DETECTIVE 

JAWS

SCALPED by Jason Aaron 

Sean McDonald 

Emily Bell 

Jackson Howard  

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Jesse Donaldson: http://jessedonaldson.com/

Jesse and James discuss:

Odysseus 

The Israelites 

Michel de Montaigne 

Augusten Burroughs 

West Virginia University Press 

IN PLACE series 

Becca Wadlinger 

Danielle Delph 

The Wolly Worm Festival 

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

Parnassus Books 

Square Books 

LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER 

Carry A. Nation House 

Magoffin County Historical Society 

Melanie Caine 

Larry Flynt 

Linda Riley 

TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH by Kevin Wilson 

Brier Books 

Wild Fig Books 

Crystal Wilkinson 

Morris Books 

The Kentucky Headhunters 

Brandon Atwell 

George Clooney 

Nick & Nina Clooney 

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