![]() ![]() The pause also gives us a chance to look at the novels of the past, which can be broken up into four separate trilogies. Before this latest hiatus from The Boys (as he often refers to them), Joe has left us a collection of short stories, Of Mice And Minestrone, to hold us over until their return, while he takes on other literary pursuits. ![]() If you’re a fan of the series, you have gotten used to the breaks Joe takes from it to work on other books. They seem everyday in a way, and that is part of their appeal, a certain authenticity, but at the same time they are bigger than life.” It’s bigger than life dialogue as Hap and Leonard are bigger than life characters. I love genre storylines, but I also love more literary aspects of style and character, and dialogue grows out of character. The genre engine that drives the stories satisfies why I became a reader in the first place, and then a writer. “Hap has a similar past to my own, and Leonard is like a number of people I know combined, and actually has a lot of me in him as well. “I think I always feel like I’m going home with those guys.” Joe explains. ![]()
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