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James Grady Talks Steeltown
Feb 4, 2024 ·
1h 5m 26s
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James Grady Talks Steeltown
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Host Eric Harper talks with bestselling author James Grady (Six Days of the Condor) about his hard-boiled crime novel Steeltown — based on Youngstown, Ohio and Butte, Montana. In this...
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Host Eric Harper talks with bestselling author James Grady (Six Days of the Condor) about his hard-boiled crime novel Steeltown — based on Youngstown, Ohio and Butte, Montana.
In this episode:
• Riffing on Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest
• Visiting Youngstown in 1988 and finding an underground casino five years before the FBI
• 58 car bombings in a year
• “The Bug” (IYKYK)
• Hammett’s murder-for-hire contract
• The killing of union organizer Frank Little
• Organized crime in the heartland
• Bruce Springsteen, the greatest author of a generation
• Next time it will be Stealtown with an A
• Changing pop culture with Six Days of the Condor
• Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
• Starting a new crime trilogy, and writing about working people
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In this episode:
• Riffing on Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest
• Visiting Youngstown in 1988 and finding an underground casino five years before the FBI
• 58 car bombings in a year
• “The Bug” (IYKYK)
• Hammett’s murder-for-hire contract
• The killing of union organizer Frank Little
• Organized crime in the heartland
• Bruce Springsteen, the greatest author of a generation
• Next time it will be Stealtown with an A
• Changing pop culture with Six Days of the Condor
• Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
• Starting a new crime trilogy, and writing about working people
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