Our Books: September 2007
By Theo Gangi
My debut novel, Bang Bang, has been coined a gritty urban thriller. I’ve always written about urban dynamics, since I’m a city kid and don’t know much else.
I found the thriller genre by accident—a professor of mine at Columbia’s MFA program saw a gun in a chapter of a previous novel and said, ‘So, clearly we’re dealing with noir here.’ I hadn’t read noir at that time—I thought I was writing literature.
Once I dove into thrillers—starting with Hammett and Chandler and working up to Connelly and Child-- I realized that these guys were not only having more fun, their work was culturally viable, personally engaging and readers didn’t need a PHD to get it. I always felt my work should appeal to everyone.
My debut novel, Bang Bang, has been coined a gritty urban thriller. I’ve always written about urban dynamics, since I’m a city kid and don’t know much else.
I found the thriller genre by accident—a professor of mine at Columbia’s MFA program saw a gun in a chapter of a previous novel and said, ‘So, clearly we’re dealing with noir here.’ I hadn’t read noir at that time—I thought I was writing literature.
Once I dove into thrillers—starting with Hammett and Chandler and working up to Connelly and Child-- I realized that these guys were not only having more fun, their work was culturally viable, personally engaging and readers didn’t need a PHD to get it. I always felt my work should appeal to everyone.
Continue reading The Big Bang.
By Theo Gangi
My debut novel, Bang Bang, has been coined a gritty urban thriller. I’ve always written about urban dynamics, since I’m a city kid and don’t know much else.
I found the thriller genre by accident—a professor of mine at Columbia’s MFA program saw a gun in a chapter of a previous novel and said, ‘So, clearly we’re dealing with noir here.’ I hadn’t read noir at that time—I thought I was writing literature.
Once I dove into thrillers—starting with Hammett and Chandler and working up to Connelly and Child-- I realized that these guys were not only having more fun, their work was culturally viable, personally engaging and readers didn’t need a PHD to get it. I always felt my work should appeal to everyone.
My debut novel, Bang Bang, has been coined a gritty urban thriller. I’ve always written about urban dynamics, since I’m a city kid and don’t know much else.
I found the thriller genre by accident—a professor of mine at Columbia’s MFA program saw a gun in a chapter of a previous novel and said, ‘So, clearly we’re dealing with noir here.’ I hadn’t read noir at that time—I thought I was writing literature.
Once I dove into thrillers—starting with Hammett and Chandler and working up to Connelly and Child-- I realized that these guys were not only having more fun, their work was culturally viable, personally engaging and readers didn’t need a PHD to get it. I always felt my work should appeal to everyone.
Continue reading The Big Bang.
