And if weโre talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.
Nic PizzolattoWhatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
Nic PizzolattoThere's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.
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