Category Archives: BULL Interview

Tom Pitts

{Nov 8, 2018}

Throw out everything you know about crime fiction. Tom Pitts, author of Hustle and American Static, returns with a plot stickier than an ounce of Humboldt County’s finest. 101 is typical Tom Pitts, the kind of novel that proves he’ll forever and ever have followers, trailing behind him begging for one more hit. —Eryk Pruitt, author of What We Reckon… more

Do It With Grace: An Interview with Portugal. The Man

BULL Interview by Ryan W. Bradley

{Oct 1, 2018}

Since 2006, Portugal. The Man has been making fearlessly evolving rock and roll. Each of their eight studio albums have shown passion, experimentation, and growth in equal measure. The four year gap between 2013’s Evil Friends and 2017’s breakout, Woodstock saw the band record a massive amount of material before scrapping an album they had… more

Darrin Doyle

BULL Interview by Benjamin Drevlow

{Sep 3, 2018}

If anything can humble a person, it’s the process of trying to “make it” as an artist; to devote your life to creating a thing that has no tangible, measurable purpose in our particular culture.… more

Kali VanBaale

BULL Interview

{Jun 28, 2018}

“Never, ever, underestimate perseverance.”… more

Joe Clifford

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Jun 4, 2018}

As a writer, you don’t set out to write anything other than that most kick-ass, amazing book you can. So it, of course, stands to reason that, after busting your balls, bleeding out your heart, spilling your soul on the page, having someone say, “This isn’t right for us” is going to hurt. … more

Frank Reardon

BULL Interview by Benjamin Drevlow

{Apr 4, 2018}

Let’s not mince words here. Frank Reardon makes his living as a butcher in Minot, North Dakota. Let’s just imagine for a moment the type of stories a butcher in Minot, North Dakota might tell. Now imagine a guy with the hard-earned writing chops of a Charles Bukowski or Larry Brown. Frank Reardon has published… more

Troy James Weaver

BULL Interview by Benjamin Drevlow

{Feb 26, 2018}

I’ll let you all in on a little secret: for the past four years, Troy James Weaver has been quietly churning out some of the best books out there. Period. In 2015, there was Witchita Stories (Future Tense Books) and Visions (Broken River Books). In 2016, there was Marigold (King Shot Press). And now this… more

STEPH POST

BULL Interview by Benjamin Drevlow

{Feb 14, 2018}

When last we caught up with the esteemed Florida-noir badass Steph Post (BULL #7), she had just published Lightwood, which introduced the world to Judah Cannon and his family of small-town criminal thugs pitted against a gang of outlaw bikers and the criminal enterprising of one Sister Tulah, a Pentecostal preacher well acquainted with the dealings… more

RYAN W. BRADLEY

BULL Interview by Benjamin Drevlow

{Feb 8, 2018}

So I’m a sucker for reading too much into an author’s bio. Example A: “Ryan W. Bradley has pumped gas, painted houses, swept the floor of a mechanic’s shop, worked on a construction crew in the Arctic Circle, fronted a punk band, and more.” Give me a bio that includes “worked construction in the Arctic… more

Dybek Interview

BULL Interview by Tim Chilcote

{Aug 24, 2015}

“If you think that writers tend to obsess over youth now, just wait a little longer as the boomers all get to write their obsessing-over-aging stories… more

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