The interviewer kind of loses his crime fiction street creds
early on by saying he's never heard of Ugly Town.
And overall, I agree with you, Bill.
There seems to be a chummy sort of in-crowd tone, a writers'
workshop obliviousness to any real world.
Joy
William Denton wrote:
> From an interview with Trevor Maviano, at
>
> http://www.sexandgutsmagazine.com/maviano.htm
>
> | But these are all guys that at least know their
way around. Someone like
> | Pelecanos, I call him the shoe salesman of crime
fiction. His rhythms
> | are wrong. He tries awful hard to be gritty.
That's how it comes off to
> | a guy like me, is tryin.... I find his stuff to be
incredibly contrived,
> | in that it is trying to expand the genre into new
areas, but I don't
> | [want] to hear preaching about racial division in
the United States
> | mixed in with my crime fiction. I just want crime.
If I want to read
> | something political, I'll read non-fiction for
Christ's sake.
>
> I think that's pretty much wrong on all counts.
Maviano later contradicts
> himself, saying, "My view of crime is different than
some people's. I feed
> off a social conflict model, that I think Marx
inspired quite a bit. I see
> crime for profit as being a political
thing."
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