Q&A…

… The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Tod Goldberg — The Rumpus.net. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… at it relates to the films, TV and books from, say, the last 25 years, I think the direct correlation is the popularity of Elmore Leonard – there’s no Pulp Fiction without Elmore Leonard, there’s not a single TV show on USA or FX without Elmore Leonard, and there’s not the proliferation of comic-noir crime novels without Elmore Leonard, at least not the ones where there’s a traditional bad guy in the role of the hero.