Episode #35
“…anything you can’t avoid...”
with guest megan abbott
Raymond Chandler once wrote:
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor—by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world…
“The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.”
Or, as Doc might put it:
“Who, me?”
About the Guest
MEGAN ABBOTT
Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels THE SONG IS YOU, DIE A LITTLE, BURY ME DEEP, THE END OF EVERYTHING, DARE ME, YOU WILL KNOW ME and THE FEVER. Her most recent book is GIVE ME YOUR HAND. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show, THE DEUCE, she is now co-creator, executive producer and show-runner of DARE ME, based upon her novel, for the USA Network and, internationally, Netflix.