Meet David Housewright at the Book Club Blast
As we approach the second annual Book Club Blast, MinnPost has invited participating authors to answer a few questions about their writing and inspiration. Responses from our Keynote Speaker, Speed-Chatters, and Meet & Minglers will be published over the next two weeks. To meet this remarkable lineup of Minnesota authors, register here and reserve your spot at the Book Club Blast.
David Housewright
MinnPost: Tell us about your recent book release.
David Housewright: My latest book, "The Taking of Libbie, SD," was released in June 2010. It's the seventh in the McKenzie series and deals with the dying of the Great Plains and how precarious it has become to live in a small town. My forthcoming book, "Highway 61," will be released June 7, 2011. It explores the relationship between the very rich and their calls girls -- an economics professor at the University of Chicago compared it to renting trophy wives by the hour. I'm also contributing short stories to three different forthcoming anthologies -- one for Halloween, one consisting of mysteries that take place in the old west, and one for the Once Upon A Crime bookstore in Minneapolis.
MP: Which authors have had the strongest influences on your own writing?
DH: You could argue that nearly every author I've read -- including the guys who wrote for Marvel comic books -- have contributed something to my work. The writers who stand out in my mind are James M. Cain, Kurt Vonnegut, John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard and E. L. Doctorow.
MP: What do you love most about living in Minnesota?
DH: The diversity of places, people, cultures -- we have all the material here that a writer could ever desire.
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