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Mar 8, 2024 · Based on a true story from Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, Paul Dektor‘s “American Dreamer” tells the story of Phil Loder (Peter Dinklage), a twice-divorced, underpaid professor of economics, who dreams of home ownership that seems to be tragically out of reach for his budget.
Sep 6, 2024 · Joe R. Lansdale’s 2013 Western novel The Thicket begins with the most outrageously tone-setting opening line to a book since Hunter S. Thompson’s “We were somewhere around Barstow” opener from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
Sep 6, 2024 · The movie, set in late-nineteenth-century Texas, stars Levon Hawke, son of Austin’s Ethan Hawke, as Jack Parker, a freshly orphaned teen who goes on a dangerous quest to save his sister, Lula...
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Joe Richard Lansdale (born October 28, 1951) is an American writer and martial arts instructor. A prose writer in a variety of genres, including Western , horror , science fiction, mystery , and suspense, he has also written comic books and screenplays.
May 6, 2014 · THE THICKET is the Western novel I didn't know could be written anymore. It's got all the best things from the novel TRUE GRIT and the movie Unforgiven.
Jul 19, 2011 · A cross between a crime novel and an old-fashioned western, The Thicket by award-winning East Texas author Joe R. Lansdale made many 'best of' lists for both years." Click here to read the rest of Tim O'Connell's review of Champion Joe's novel!
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He’s written award-winning horror, mystery, suspense, westerns, graphic novels and comics, media tie-ins, screenplays, and mainstream literature, yet each new work fits recognizably into the East Texas-slang-filled, fast-paced, fluid storytelling style that defines the Joe R. Lansdale genre.
