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“We just decided we wanted to write a novel that we would like to ... was inspired by novelists like Ernest Hemingway and Elmore Leonard. Clint Eastwood Mourns 'Dear Friend' Gene Hackman After ...

I’m a creative writing teacher’s worst nightmare ... And I always end up quoting Elmore Leonard on this subject. He was a friend and a great joy to do a book event with because he always ...

Harrison Mooney is an associate editor at The Tyee. He is an award-winning author and journalist from Abbotsford, B.C., who ...

FX premiered one of the best Elmore Leonard adaptations of all time in ... Shot like a mockumentary, it has incredibly sharp writing, but Abbott Elementary’s best asset is its ensemble, one ...

Adrian McKinty is a writer from Northern Ireland who currently resides in New York City. He grew up during the period known as ‘The Troubles" as sectarian violence along religious lines bedeviled the ...

He spent his later years writing novels. In 1956 he married Faye ... opposite John Travolta in Get Shorty – based on the Elmore Leonard book; and a corrupt president in Eastwood’s Absolute ...