Four Questions With… Peter Farris

I first ran across Peter Farris’s fiction at Shotgun Honey, a website dedicated to crime-themed flash fiction. (Be sure to check out “Disney Noir”.) His first novel, Last Call for the Living, was published last year (the mass market paperback comes out on March 26) and has been described as a “gritty and fascinating Southern noir gem” and “a debut that demands attention.”

I agree with both descriptions. Last Call for the Living probably shouldn’t be as easy to read as it is. Many of the charac...