Carl Hiaasen
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
CARL HIAASEN is a best-selling and award-winning author and journalist. His novels include Tourist Season, Strip Tease, Skin Tight and the recently released Fever Beach. Adaptations of his work include Strip Tease (starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Ving Rhames), Hoot (starring Brie Larson, Logan Lerman, and Luke Wilson) and Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn and now streaming on Apple. He joins the podcast to share what it was like collaborating with Elmore (as well as Jimmy Buffet and Warren Zevon), explain what makes Florida so magnetic, and tell us about that time he set up...
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Pronto
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Alex and Judd dive deep into PRONTO - the first book of Elmore Leonard's to feature Raylan Givens, the central character of FX's Justified. They discuss how Elmore auditioned one of his greatest characters, what Raylan cares about most, and also touch on the moral decay and lack of respect among the youth. Also, Judd spoils the ending to the 1993 Tom Cruise movie, The Firm. Hosted By: Judd Rubin and Alex Leonard Music by: Greg Ahee Produced and Edited by: Judd Rubin Executive Producer: Peter Leonard Let's talk: www.elmoreleonardofficial.com
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Alex R. Johnson
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Alex R. Johnson is an author and filmmaker. His debut novel Brooklyn Motto was published this year and his film Two Step, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. He joins the podcast to talk Elmore and tell us what it's like to jump between film and books, learn from Jonathan Demme, and grow up in a house of spies. https://haciendafilmsinc.com Guest: Alex R. Johnson Hosted By: Judd Rubin and Alex Leonard Music by: Greg Ahee Produced and Edited by: Judd Rubin Executive Producer: Peter Leonard Let's talk: www.elmoreleonardofficial.com
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Walter Mosley
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Walter Mosley is one of our great writers. He's written over 60 books, including mysteries, science fiction, short stories and non-fiction. His books have been adapted into films and television shows such as Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle; The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson (Apple TV); The Man in my Basement starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe (Hulu), and many more. He is also incredibly prolific in television, having written on shows such as FX's Snowfall, Justified: City Primeval and The...
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Danny Cosmo
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Danny Cosmo is a world-record holding high diver and stunt man who has worked on over 170 movies. Cosmo met Elmore during the research phase of TISHOMINGO BLUES, and Elmore based much of his character Dennis on Cosmo's exploits. Cosmo joins us to share what it's like to dive from 96 feet in the air, getting shot at in Puerto Rico, transmitting subliminal messages on The Tonight Show, and how he got to be such good friends with Elmore. See Danny in action here: Danny's YouTube Channel: Guest: Danny Cosmo Hosted By: Judd Rubin and Alex Leonard Music by: Greg Ahee Produced and...
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Graham Yost
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Graham Yost has written or produced some of the best television ever. His work includes Band of Brothers, Boomtown, John Adams, The Pacific, Masters of the Air, The Americans, Slow Horses, and Silo. He is also the Executive Producer and Showrunner of FX's Justified, based on Elmore Leonard's short story "Fire in the Hole." Justified, starring Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins, Joelle Carter, and Nick Searcy among many other amazing actors, is considered one of the very best adaptations of Elmore's work. While Graham refused to share his childhood nickname with us, he did share great...
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One For The Archives
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Before Elmore Leonard died in 2013 he decided that he wanted his archives to live at The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina. This fall, the first Elmore Leonard Exhibit opened and we got to meet two of the people responsible for preserving the archives, Michael Weisenburg and Elizabeth Sudduth. Michael is the current director of the Collection and oversaw the exhibit, and Elizabeth was the director when Elmore decided that he wanted his papers, notes, and letters to be preserved alongside those of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hammett, and...
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Otto Penzler
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Alex gets an audience with the one and only Otto Penzler, a dear friend of Elmore's and the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City - the oldest mystery specialist book store in America. Having been featured in Comfort to the Enemy and Up In Honey's Room, Otto is also the first character of Elmore's to join ust on the podcast. Otto tells us about getting to know Elmore, the importance of not showing off all that you know, and why it's good to be the first to ask. This episode is dedicated to Raffles, the German Shepherd. https://www.mysteriousbookshop.com...
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Florida Stories Vol. 1, with Bill Leonard and Kristy Lowman
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Elmore Leonard has been referred to as the "Dickens of Detroit" but his books are set all over the world. Some of our favorite books of Elmore's, like Split Images, Cat Chaser, La Brava, Maximum Bob, or Rum Punch are set in the great State of Florida. This podcast features conversations with two people with very unique connections to Florida and Elmore. In the first half of the podast, we speak with Kristy Lowman an actual Weeki Wachee mermaid, just like the ones featured in Maximum Bob. We also get to speak with one of Elmore's five children, Bill Leonard, who shares some great stories...
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Split Images
The Elmore Leonard Podcast
Alex and Judd throw on their cashmere sweaters, plant machetes, and taunt the homicide detectives as they dive deep into Elmore Leonard's SPLIT IMAGES. From ElmoreLeonardOfficial.com: Wealthy industrialist Robbie Daniels has discovered something that gives him even a bigger kick than his palatial homes in Detroit and Palm Beach: homicide. He’s tried it, he likes it, and he’d like to keep doing it—as often as possible—with the help of a really bad ex-cop who quit the force one step away from prison stripes. Motown Detective Bryan Hurd strongly suspects that Daniels has been...
info_outlineMEGAN ABBOTT - bestselling author of Dare Me, the Edgar Award-winning Queenpin, Die a Little, and the upcoming El Dorado Drive (a New York Times Summer Book Pick) joins The Elmore Leonard Podcast to discuss carrying on the American hard boiled tradition, tells us what Elmore freed her to do in her own writing, and shares what we can learn from Kafka's cleaning lady.
Find some of Megan's essays here
Enjoy Megan's interview with Elmore here
https://www.meganabbott.com
Guest: Megan Abbott
Hosted By: Judd Rubin and Alex Leonard
Music by: Greg Ahee
Produced and Edited by: Judd Rubin
Executive Producer: Peter Leonard
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