Welcome to the podcast! In this episode, guest co-host Craig Terlson and I chat with author Thomas Trang about his debut novel, "Dark Neon & Dirt". As seems our wont, the conversations always expound on life, our influences in reading and writing, and many more things. Thanks for sitting down with us and having a listen. Click Play, we've saved you a spot here at The Speakeasy. Ciao!
Referenced during the Episode:
-Ted Flanagan (American author)
-Philip K. Dick (American Science-Fiction author b. 1928 - d. 1982)
-Edward Hopper (American painter b. 1882 - d. 1967)
-M.E. (Martine) Proctor (Belgian-American Crime-Fiction author; see her podcast earlier)
-Dennis Miller (American comedian)
-George Santayana (Spanish philosopher b. 1863 - d. 1952)
-Carlos Santana (American musician b. 1947)
-"Muttley" (Fictional cartoon dog created in 1968 by Hanna-Barbera Productions)
-"Heat" (1995 Crime/Thriller film with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer)
-"The Killer" (1989 Action/Crime film by John Woo)
-Don DeLillo (American author b. 1936)
-Jennifer Egan (American author b. 1962)
-"The Bear" (American TV series)
-"Breaking Bad" (American Crime/Drama TV series)
-Paul Burke (host of Crime Time FM podcast)
-Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian painter b. 1571 - d. 1610)
-"The Sopranos" (American Crime/Drama TV series)
-Joe Lansdale (American author b. 1951)
-Elmore Leonard (American author b. 1925 - d. 2013)
-Vince Vaughn (American actor)
-J.K. Simmons (American actor)
-"Surf City Acid Drop" by Craig Terlson; Book 1 in his Luke Fischer crime novel series
-Charles Willeford (American author b. 1918 - d. 1988)
-Don Winslow (American author b. 1953)
-James Crumley (American author b. 1939 - d. 2008)
-Ron Earl Phillips (editor of Shotgun Honey online magazine and book publisher)
-Steve Erickson (American author b. 1950)
-Haruki Murakami (Japanese author b. 1949)
-Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (Chilean author b. 1953 - d. 2003)
-Kurt Vonnegut (American author b. 1922 - d. 2007)
-Thomas Pynchon (American author b. 1937)
-Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (American author b. 1925 - d. 2012)
