Moving on: The book-like the muscle cars featured in it-is a fast machine that takes readers on a wild, dangerous ride. I have read that scene, by the way, and yeah, it’s damn good. That was when I thought I’d found the rhythm. If you’ve read the book its the scene with Ronnie and Bug in the cornfield. SA: Like most writers, I often think I’m just barely treading water, but I will say there is a section towards the end of the book where I felt like maybe just maybe this story was pretty good. When did you know you had something really special cooking with this book? SA: It’s been an amalgamation of fear, excitement, surrealness, and a smidge of inebriation. (Well deserved, I must add.) Has all the attention and buzz been a dream come true, or totally terrifying? Or both? I can’t remember the last time I saw a neo-noir novel garner as much praise and accolades as your book has.

Welcome, S.A.! And huge KUDOS on Blacktop Wasteland. But then I remembered how generous, humble and good-natured Cosby has been with me-and everyone -ever since I met him on Twitter last year, and I realized it’s no surprise at all that he agreed to be here today.

Now, you may be thinking, Wow, why would a big new breakout novelist like Cosby waste his valuable time doing an interview with someone like Greg? It’s okay- I thought the same thing. “Sensationally good―new, fresh, real, authentic, twisty, with characters and dilemmas that will break your heart. … Blacktop Wasteland thrums and races―it’s an intoxicating thrill of a ride.” -Walter Mosley Cosby reinvents the American crime novel. Cosby is a welcome, refreshing new voice in crime literature.” ―Dennis Lehane “ Blacktop Wasteland is an urgent, timely, pitch-perfect jolt of American noir. I’d need a whole separate website to fit all the raving testimonials the book and Cosby have received from some of the biggest names in crime fiction since it launched last month. This goes double for his stunning and widely acclaimed new novel, Blacktop Wasteland(Flatiron Books). The fresh booming voice, the electrical charge and the emotional thrum I and the rest of the audience heard is the same voice and charge and thrum a reader “hears” whenever reading Cosby’s work themselves. I was attending a “Noir at the Bar” event at the Bouchercon crime fiction convention in Dallas last year, and Cosby gave a reading that tore the house down.

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