Richard Lange's Blog, page 9
December 27, 2012
Blurbs for Angel Baby
Here are two great blurbs for Angel Baby:
"Angel Baby starts off in a sprint and never slows down. Richard Lange is a
natural-born storyteller. What an excellent novel, both suspenseful and
surprisingly moving."
--Ron Rash
"Richard Lange has a Ph. D in badass, and in Angel Baby he leads the reader through every can’t-look, can’t-look-away-corner of treachery and sleaze, violence and danger, with a level of detail and authority so overpowering, so spot-on in every nuance of criminal speech and casual savagery that it would surprise absolutely no one to discover the author did some kind of time on the dark side himself before scrapping his sawed-off for a laptop. From the opening paragraph, Lange ratchets up the tension, and doesn’t let up until the last realer-than-real, punch-in-the throat scene. I loved this book – and can’t wait until his next one. Lange stands out as the greatest young crime writer of his generation, precisely because he doesn’t write crime – he writes literature. Dark, true, wild-ass, and un-fucking-put-downable."
--Jerry Stahl
"Angel Baby starts off in a sprint and never slows down. Richard Lange is a
natural-born storyteller. What an excellent novel, both suspenseful and
surprisingly moving."
--Ron Rash
"Richard Lange has a Ph. D in badass, and in Angel Baby he leads the reader through every can’t-look, can’t-look-away-corner of treachery and sleaze, violence and danger, with a level of detail and authority so overpowering, so spot-on in every nuance of criminal speech and casual savagery that it would surprise absolutely no one to discover the author did some kind of time on the dark side himself before scrapping his sawed-off for a laptop. From the opening paragraph, Lange ratchets up the tension, and doesn’t let up until the last realer-than-real, punch-in-the throat scene. I loved this book – and can’t wait until his next one. Lange stands out as the greatest young crime writer of his generation, precisely because he doesn’t write crime – he writes literature. Dark, true, wild-ass, and un-fucking-put-downable."
--Jerry Stahl
December 6, 2012
Advance Reading Copies
ARCs of Angel Baby are now shipping. Very exciting to have it out in the world.
November 12, 2012
September 26, 2012
WEHO Book Fair
I'm on "The L.A. Literary Journal" panel at the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday (9/30) from 2:45-3:45. Come on down!
September 3, 2012
May 14, 2012
Tijuana piece
A piece I wrote on Tijuana is now up at the Mulholland Books site. Zebra-donkey photos included. http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/2012/0...
April 22, 2012
L.A. Times
Got a nice mention in Tod Goldberg's L.A. Times piece: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/....
April 4, 2012
Angel Baby
The title of my new novel has changed. It's now called Angel Baby. They're working on the cover, which will have neither angels nor babies. The book will be out in May 2013.
April 3, 2012
Death Match
I'll be judging a Literary Death Match on April 20 at Atwater Crossing in L.A.:
http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upc...
http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upc...
March 21, 2012
Writer in Residence
I'll be Writer in Residence in Bordeaux, France this summer. Here's a link to a slideshow of this beautiful city: http://www.virtourist.com/europe/bord....
