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Thursday, August 6, 2015

If Laird Barron wrote a western

"Have you ever thought about writing a Western novel, with no horror or science fiction elements? I’ve considered writing in many genres. My grandfather was a failed novelist. Westerns were his favorite. If I do it, and I just might, it would be a sprawling epic in the spirit of Leone and Peckinpah, full of bloody revenge, heaving bosoms, and men who love gold and horses and guns and come to bad ends. And there’d be something fucking weird going on in the periphery. Sorry."
Posted by Brian Lindenmuth at 5:38 AM
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