Charlie Huston Interview – part 1 video

Writing my introduction to my interview with Charlie Huston is an easy one, because all I really need to is quote the massive amount of praise that’s been heaped upon the Southern Californian novelist over the last six years:

“Bloody Amazing. Charlie Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers—Peter Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. Surprising, funny, compassionate, edge-of-seat stuff, and beautifully written. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Huston has found it. A true marvel.”
–Ken Bruen

“Rock and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cold, slit eyed mother of a book and Charlie Huston is the real deal.”
–Peter Straub

“Huston may be the crime writer of the decade.”
–Sarah Weinman, Confessions of an idiosyncratic mind

“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.”
–Stephen King

Rest assured that none of these blurbs are lip service. Huston’s novels are bold, page turning, genre benders. And on January 12th at the Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ, I sat down with Huston to discuss his career, future projects, and his most recent novel, Sleepless.

About Keith Rawson

Keith Rawson is a little known pulp writer who lives in the alkaline desert wastelands of southern Arizona with his wife and very energetic three-year-old daughter. His stories have appeared in such publications as Plots with Guns, Pulp Pusher, CrimeWav.com, Bad Things, Powder Burn Flash, A Twist of Noir, Beat to a Pulp and many others. You can find him most nights dicking around on either Twitter or Facebook, or stroking his already overinflated ego at his blog, Bloody Knuckles, Callused Fingertips (http://bloodyknucklescallusedfingertips.blogspot.com/)