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''I'd say it's highly unlikely that I'll ever write another one,'' says the best-selling author of five Patrick Kenzie detective mysteries, including Gone Baby Gone, which was made into a movie last year by Ben Affleck. ''I was never comfortable with them anyway. I'd be writing these friggin' whodunits,'' he laughs, getting excited, ''and I could care less. I wanna tell everybody on page 2, he killed so-and-so, he done it! If you look at my books in that regard — and I'll be 100 percent honest about my flaws — you can see how I was whipping out the kitchen sink just to obscure s---, like the identity of the serial killer or whatever, and that's why the books got so labyrinthian in the last 100 pages.''"
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Poor man. To be so artistically stymied. Apparently never heard of an open mystery nor a suspense novel. Thank goodness he's escaped.
May Sean Penn star in every subsequent movie made from his work (that's a curse).
Ah, the return of Sharyn "I don't want to be part of that trailer park" McCrumb. She wanted to be, and thought she was, Eudora Welty. Her career is where currently? Dennis wants to be Andre Dubus. It will be interesting to see where his career is in 5 years or so.
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I wish them well, and it's too bad they don't like us.
That's "I COULDN'T care less." Dennis.
Maybe he'd feel better if he unburdened himself of all that money he made off the mystery series...
Lehane is supposed to attend "Murder and Mayhem in Muskego". I'll be sure to ask him about this if I get a chance at a microphone.
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