Best of Q: Adam Sternbergh on Shovel Ready and anti-hero appeal
Adam Sternbergh on his hard-boiled futuristic thriller, Shovel Ready.
Guest host Gill Deacon speaks with Adam Sternbergh, contributing editor at New York Magazine and Vulture, about his hard-boiled futuristic thriller, Shovel Ready.
The novel, set in a post-nuclear New York, is Sternbergh's first -- but it's already been optioned as a film starring Denzel Washington.
In a conversation from the Best of Q, the Canadian-bred writer shares his vision of a crumbling and contaminated near-future in NYC, how he made his dark character so easy to root for, and how he responds to critics of his graphically violent scenes.
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