I completely agree. TV loves and anti-hero. Publishing is terrified of them. More than ever. My novel which I serialized here on Substack has an anti hero. A Wall Street guy who was about to get busted for securities fraud and staged his death on 9/11 and goes on tho help lots of people as a modern day Robin Hood. No one will touch it. Great article and video.
It was a risk in my book to write a pugilist farmboy with a chip on his shoulder and a fuse that's Shapiro short with the vulgar verbiage of a drunken sailor on shore leave, but those who read The Black Crown know how well that risk paid off. Not a soul wouldn't want Cortland on their side.
I truly don’t understand how a literary culture that created Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Psycho, Post Office, Fight Club and Blood Meridian has devolved into this cozy slop fest. Like, at what point did ironic reflection made by boring people take over?
I don't want to put too much thought into it at the moment because there's a pro-FBI psy-op angle to the success of those novels... (probably not entirely organic.)
But young Craig definitely enjoyed the idea of an intelligent, cultured murderer that killed rude people.
Good characterization is so memorable. Supposedly Hannibal's pulse stayed normal while he was biting someone's face off. I still recall the way Michael Crichton first described Dr. Sattler in Jurassic Park, that she washed her hair with dish soap because 'its all the same thing.'
Good video, I appreciate your zero bullshit voice of reason stuff, got your book, semper fi
I completely agree. TV loves and anti-hero. Publishing is terrified of them. More than ever. My novel which I serialized here on Substack has an anti hero. A Wall Street guy who was about to get busted for securities fraud and staged his death on 9/11 and goes on tho help lots of people as a modern day Robin Hood. No one will touch it. Great article and video.
It was a risk in my book to write a pugilist farmboy with a chip on his shoulder and a fuse that's Shapiro short with the vulgar verbiage of a drunken sailor on shore leave, but those who read The Black Crown know how well that risk paid off. Not a soul wouldn't want Cortland on their side.
I truly don’t understand how a literary culture that created Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Psycho, Post Office, Fight Club and Blood Meridian has devolved into this cozy slop fest. Like, at what point did ironic reflection made by boring people take over?
I'd love to ask Thomas Harris why he made Hannibal Lecter so darn likeable.
I’d hang that more on Anthony Hopkins (and later Mads Mikkelsen). Book Hannibal isn’t nearly as riveting imo
I don't want to put too much thought into it at the moment because there's a pro-FBI psy-op angle to the success of those novels... (probably not entirely organic.)
But young Craig definitely enjoyed the idea of an intelligent, cultured murderer that killed rude people.
Good characterization is so memorable. Supposedly Hannibal's pulse stayed normal while he was biting someone's face off. I still recall the way Michael Crichton first described Dr. Sattler in Jurassic Park, that she washed her hair with dish soap because 'its all the same thing.'
Good video, I appreciate your zero bullshit voice of reason stuff, got your book, semper fi