Damn Pinko Wants Morality in Books, by Josh Stallings

 Q: Do you often/sometimes weave a moral message into your writing, or do you think that's awful, and something that should never be attempted? Can you recommend good examples of books that do one or the other? 

 

A: Social commentary is one of the grand traditions of crime fiction going all the way back to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. When the first people sat around the fire telling tales I’m sure they had a moral component. It is near impossible to write without a personal point-of-view...