From her Q & A with novelist Declan Burke:
What crime novel would you most like to have written?Learn more about the author and her novels at Lyndsay Faye's website.
THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler. “It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.” Stare at that sentence for two or three minutes and marvel at its perfection. That book is magical.
What fictional character would you most like to have been?
Dr. John H. Watson. I’d have spent my entire life watching someone be amazing.
Who do you read for guilty pleasures?
I don’t feel much in the way of guilt about my pleasures, truth be told. But I do collect atrociously written Sherlock Holmes pastiches, the more crack and unlikely Victorian celebrity cameos and bodice-ripping covers with floating deerstalker art the better. (Incidentally, I also collect...[read on]
Writers Read: Lyndsay Faye (May 2009).
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