{"id":558,"date":"2009-07-01T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/01\/crazy-sort-of-folk-lansdale-takes-a-vanilla-ride\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:26","slug":"crazy-sort-of-folk-lansdale-takes-a-vanilla-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/07\/01\/crazy-sort-of-folk-lansdale-takes-a-vanilla-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy sort of folk: Lansdale takes a ‘Vanilla Ride’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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
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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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My interview with Joe R. Lansdale appears in today’s San Antonio Current. Quote: \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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n