In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.