A Portrait Of the Artist As a Young Junkie: An Interview With Tony O’Neill
It isn’t hard to become an addict, and for me you’d better bring something more to the table than your track marks and some missing teeth. I make no bones about the fact that I mine my own personal experiences for material. I think most writers do that, some more obliquely than others. But the writers that I admire are novelists. When I sit down to write, I don’t have the idea that people will be fascinated by my story because of my personal history. I hope that the telling of it will fascinate them. My books are meant to read as immersive experiences. You are dragged into the toilet stall, and you feel the needle going in.
Andrew Gallix interviews Tony O’Neill about his new novel, Down and Out on Murder Mile.
King of the Wild Frontier
I know some authors think of themselves as colossally important people who’ve been blessed with the wisdom of Solomon, but these are generally dreadful people to get stuck in a corner at parties with. No one appointed me commissar of common sense so I try to resist lecturing the rest of humanity on what’s right and wrong with the world. I leave that to people who get bigger advances than me. No, my books are simply meant to be a bit of a chuckle, some easy reading that you can enjoy around the pool or on your way to work. They’re not meant to change anyone’s life. Except possibly mine.
Andrew Stevens interviews Danny King for 3:AM.