“If Ken Bruen did not exist, only the devil could have invented Jack Taylor.“
Some kind soul added a quote from Pike to Goodreads. I don’t know why I am so happy about that.
Too dumb for New York City, too ugly for LA.
“So I need to write about the land. About the Lake. About the emptiness of the Dakota prairies. Because while it’s nice to evoke that sense of those places in my readers, that’s not why I’m doing it. Fuck no. I’m writing about them to evoke that sense of those places in myself.”
25 vintage police record photographs from New South Wales.
The tactical candle holder.
“The morning after a big awards show like this, there is always a very shallow debate over whether it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for big celebrities to speak out about political issues on stage at the big awards show. This is not the important issue. I guess on the grand spectrum of ‘good’ to ‘bad’ in this world of ours, ‘bad’ would be ‘The Academy Awards are held and no one speaks out about politics because it is all about opulence,’ and ‘good’ would be ‘The Academy Awards are not held.’ If the Academy Awards are going to be held, might as well use them to some small societal benefit, by robbing the people’s houses.”