Arguably (and who doesn't like to argue?) the world's bestselling cult
author, Joe R. Lansdale is celebrated across several continents for his
dark humor, his grimly gleeful horror, and his outlaw politics. Welcome
to Texas. With hits like Bubba Ho-Tep and The Drive-In the Lansdale
secret was always endangered, and the spectacular new Hap and Leonard
Sundance TV series is busily blowing whatever cover Joe had left.
Backwoods noir some call it; others call it redneck surrealism. Joe's
signature style is on display here in all its grit, grime, and glory,
beginning with two (maybe three) previously unpublished Hap and Leonard
tales revealing the roots of their unlikely partnership.
Plus...
A hatful and a half of Joe's notorious Texas Observer pieces that
helped catapult him from obscurity into controversy; and "Miracles Ain't
What They Used to Be," Lansdale's passionately personal take on the
eternal tussles between God and Man, Texas and America, racism and
reason--and religion and common sense.
And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, in which piney woods dialect,
Bible thumpery, martial arts, crime classics and Hollywood protocols are
finally awarded the attention they deserve. Or don't.