Bestselling Thriller Author Stephen Hunter Talks His Latest Novel, Movie Reviews, Guns, and More

Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Stephen Hunter discusses his latest book, FRONT SIGHT: THREE SWAGGER NOVELS. Hunter and host William R. Hincy also discuss how filmmaking has changed over the years, what it means to have one of his books adapted into the film SHOOTER with Mark Wahlberg (as well as in a television series) and his time in the army. . And we're calling this special episode: Writers on Zoom Drinking Coffee.

Connections:
Front Sight order link: https://bookshop.org/p/books/front-sight-trois-swagger-novels-stephen-hunter/20165460?ean9781668030363
WRH website: https://williamrhincy.com/
WRH Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-R.-Hincy/author/B07ZYB5FHZ

Biography :
Stephen Hunter: Stephen Hunter has written more than twenty novels. A retired chief film critic of the Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism in 2003, he also published two collections of film criticism and a work of nonfiction, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit and have a cocktail with theirs. William R. Hincy is a man who works and writes about the latter. Becoming a writer after deciding it was the only reasonable thing to do for a problem drinker, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create disorder but have instead become disorder . Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and her personal anthology of UNEXPIRED short fiction was named one of the best books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and children, having found comfort in the idea that the only things sacred are oneself and whiskey interludes.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:00:31 Presentations
00:02:48 Baltimore exciting
00:07:14 Film review with the Pulitzer Prize winner
00:09:11 How has cinema evolved over the years
00:16:35 Film criticism evolves over the years
00:24:20 Comments on a change of mind
00:28:53 Differences between cinema and literature
00:37:19 What does it feel like to have your novel adapted into a film
00:42:03 Differences between the film Shooter and the book
00:48:08 JFK inspiration
00:54:49 How Hunt's time in the military influenced his writing
01:01:02 On weapons
01:06:36 Plans – rapid fire questions
01:15:59 FRONT VIEW Discussion
01:34:37 Last call – avoid bitterness