Richard Lange's Blog, page 10
January 8, 2012
KPCC interview
Hayley Fox from KPCC took a walk with me around MacArthur Park and the interview is up now. The segment is near the end of the program, but you can fast-forward to it, if you want. If you scroll down the page there's a link to a longer print interview and some photos of our day. http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/
December 19, 2011
Mulholland U.K.
Very excited to announce that my new novel, Gather Darkness, will be released in the United Kingdom on Mulholland U.K., an imprint of Hodder.
December 9, 2011
Gather Darkness
Just signed a deal with Little, Brown for a new novel. Get ready for Gather Darkness, on the Mulholland imprint in spring 2013.
May 13, 2009
Another Paris appearance
Thursday evening, May 28, at Mille Pages (http://www.rue-des-livres.com/librair...) in Vincennes, with Madison Smartt Bell. Call for time.
May 11, 2009
Another L.A. Reading
Save the day: I'll be reading at Stories in Echo Park (http://www.storiesla.com/) on Saturday, August 1.
May 4, 2009
Kirkus weighs in on TWW
Kirkus likes This Wicked World:
"Ex-con tries to keep straight in this hard-boiled first novel.
After he left the Marine Corps, Jimmy Boone turned his imposing physique and slightly violent temperament into a lucrative career as a bodyguard. After an unfortunate experience with a client, he ended up in Corcoran. Now, back on the outside, he’s tending bar on Hollywood Boulevard and trying to stay out of trouble. But Lange’s Los Angeles is built on the bones of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, so all it takes is the mysterious death of an illegal immigrant to draw Boone into an ugly world of drugs, dog fights and truly inventive parole violations. Lange displayed his mastery of short fiction with the story collection Dead Boys (2007), in which each brief narrative felt true and inevitable. This longer, more complex tale occasionally feels contrived. But the author more than makes up for the slightly creaky plot with his compelling characters. Even the minor players are fully-formed, and Lange manages to depict a little bit of L.A. with each one. Consider, for example, T.K.: His day job is doing dirty work for a sociopathic crime boss, but his dream is to star in a series of martial-arts-influenced fitness DVDs that will be bigger than Tae Bo.
Smartly entertaining noir, and a promise of better novels to come."
"Ex-con tries to keep straight in this hard-boiled first novel.
After he left the Marine Corps, Jimmy Boone turned his imposing physique and slightly violent temperament into a lucrative career as a bodyguard. After an unfortunate experience with a client, he ended up in Corcoran. Now, back on the outside, he’s tending bar on Hollywood Boulevard and trying to stay out of trouble. But Lange’s Los Angeles is built on the bones of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, so all it takes is the mysterious death of an illegal immigrant to draw Boone into an ugly world of drugs, dog fights and truly inventive parole violations. Lange displayed his mastery of short fiction with the story collection Dead Boys (2007), in which each brief narrative felt true and inevitable. This longer, more complex tale occasionally feels contrived. But the author more than makes up for the slightly creaky plot with his compelling characters. Even the minor players are fully-formed, and Lange manages to depict a little bit of L.A. with each one. Consider, for example, T.K.: His day job is doing dirty work for a sociopathic crime boss, but his dream is to star in a series of martial-arts-influenced fitness DVDs that will be bigger than Tae Bo.
Smartly entertaining noir, and a promise of better novels to come."
May 1, 2009
L.A. Reading
I'll be reading at Skylight Books in Los Feliz on Friday, July 10. Be there! Please.
April 27, 2009
Publishers Weekly
PW loves This Wicked World:http://www.publishersweekly.com/artic....
April 14, 2009
L.A. Weekly Weekend
I'll be on a panel with Jerry Stahl and Patrick DeWitt as part of the L.A. Weekly's L.A. Weekend. It all goes down Saturday, April 25, at 3pm, at the Montalban Theater in Hollywood. Here's the link: http://laweekend.laweekly.com/.
April 11, 2009
Paris reading
I will be reading with Kevin Patterson at Village Voice Bookshop in Paris, France on May 27. More info here: http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/a....
