Dr. Ken Bruen at GoodisCon 2007.
Winner of the first David Loeb Goodis Award
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Winner of the first David Loeb Goodis Award
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The whole concept of things start bad and get so much worse.
2. Was it a particular work of art, literature, music, time, person or event that grabbed you?
David Goodis, read him and knew, this is what I want to write.............
3. If so, then what or when or who was it?
David Goodis wrote such stunning books despite the most appalling mind terrors.
4. How would you define this flash point/noir feeling/being a very small component of something that s so enormous that it defies our understanding?
Noir just sings to the walking wounded among us I think and mirrors so well the mental torment the likes of me have endured.
5. When it comes to the noir of life, what most closely do you associate with your work? Are they related? Experienced as a voyeur or vicariously?
I sit in court cases and watch in horror/astonishment the most vile people on the planet walk free.
6. Do you think others are drawn to your work out of curiosity or some sort of feeling of sympatico?
For me, i think the humour helps, to truly underwrite the abyss, leaven it with humour, the dancing on the Titanic syndrome.
7. Are there other questions that I should be asking?
Why are so many people resentful against noir,
What is the greatest work of noir ever written
and oh Sweet Lord, why do we have to endure Noir-lite.
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