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My interview<\/a> with Joe R. Lansdale appears in today’s San Antonio Current<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[The Hap and Leonard stories] are crazy sort of folk tales mixed with reality, but it\u2019s always the social and cultural issues and the two characters that drive the series.\u201d
\n\u2014 Joe R. Lansdale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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\u201cVanilla Ride<\/span><\/a> was written under the influence of the [G. W.] Bush period. I was probably a little bit harder on some of the things going on then,\u201d said Lansdale. \u201cReligion, I\u2019m often very hard on. That doesn\u2019t mean I believe everyone who is religious are evil people. You talk about the extremists.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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In March, the University of Texas Press issued Chicken Fried and Sanctified: The Portable Lansdale<\/span><\/a>, which conferred upon him some literary cred.<\/p>\n

\u201cRightly or wrongly, I seem to be transcending just this genre label and [am now] being thought of just as an American writer. I think it\u2019s because my themes are so American, even if I\u2019m writing something that has a more of a genre construct or feel to it. There is something to the way I do it that appeals to people who might not ordinarily read genre fiction,\u201d he says.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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