Charlie Huston's Blog, page 100

Two words: Warren Oats.

Two words: Warren Oats.

Creeeeepy.

Creeeeepy.

Charlie Huston channels his anger in 'Skinner'

Charlie Huston channels his anger in 'Skinner':

These things have happened in Charlie Huston’s novels: People are shot, strangled, bludgeoned, raped; a cat is tortured; brains are splattered. With his dark imagination, you might expect Huston to be a black-clad, moody goth, or a cigarette-smoking nihilist with a taste for the macabre. Instead, he’s soft-spoken, with a quiet manner and a careful, disciplined bearing.

Another feature in a national paper. I am a very lucky writer.

And also, that i...

The song on page 288.Everyone in their group queues up, all...

The song on page 288.

Everyone in their group queues up, all eyes on the espresso machine manned by a slender young Turk with the accent of a Westphalia native. He moves in constant rhythm, some part of his body, neck, fingers, shoulders, knees, feet, always responding to the beats coming from the small silver speakers he’s cabled to the finger-smudged white case of his touch-wheel iPod.

A thriller that Edward Snowden could have stepped out of

A thriller that Edward Snowden could have stepped out of:

The 12th novel from Charlie Huston, author of the Henry Thompson trilogy and the Joe Pitt Casebooks series stars an off-the-rails CIA-trained killer.

There’s a nice feature about SKINNER inThe Wall Street Journal. The WSJ site is behind a paywall so it may require a trip to the newsstand. I was able to skip to it via a Google search for "Charlie Huston WSJ" but I haven’t been able to link it directly. The link at the top sends you to th...

The Evil Dead (1981)You know what sucked?The remake of The...

The Evil Dead (1981)

You know what sucked?

The remake ofThe Evil Dead sucked.

I’d rather watch this for two hours.

SKINNER soundtracks.The Handsome Furs’ “Serve the...

SKINNER soundtracks.

The Handsome Furs’ “Serve the People." On the playlist while I was writing SKINNER. Lyrically captures at least one of the themes of the book. Sounds like the book. The video bears no real connection to the book, but the settings and feeling of anomie are on the button.

residentinmaps:RainI’m reblogging this from...

residentinmaps:

Rain

I’m reblogging this from brucesterling, but you’d do well to go directly to Resident in Maps and check it out. A taste for photography and/or poetry will help. That or an interest in the repurposing of Google Maps. This hits my visceral art-technology button very hard.

Also, this particular piece is so Skinneresque that is hurts.

Some SKINNER songs I think.Most wil be links to video content...

Some SKINNER songs I think.

Most wil be links to video content rather than uploads on the site.

Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs" is tonally dead on for SKINNER, and I listened to it quite a lot during the writing, but the Spike Jonze video plays like the Shotgun Rule kids dropped into the world of Sleepless.

Jules's Mystery Picks | Barnes & Noble

Jules's Mystery Picks | Barnes & Noble:

Hey look! SKINNER is one of Jules’s Mystery Picks for July.

Thanks, Jules.