The Elmore Leonard Podcast
by Elmore Leonard, Inc.
The Elmore Leonard Podcast explores the work and life of one of our greatest novelists: Elmore Leonard. We will interview those who knew him and his work best, and also dive deep into the novels, the short stories and the invisible threads that tie them together. If you've read the books and seen the adaptations, we've got a lot to talk about. And if you haven't, get to work. Either way, subscribe to The Elmore Leonard Podcast today.
Episodes
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Bandits, Part Two
Here is Part Two of our deep dive into Elmore Leonard's BANDITS. As the heist kicks into gear, Alex and Judd enjoy a $500 chicken dinner, Judd revels in one of Elmore's moves, and Alex shares what he wishes was different about a book that was (partially) dedicated to him. Links:...
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Bandits, Part One
BANDITS, Elmore's second best seller ever, is a tale of nuns and guns in The Big Easy. In Part One of the deep dive, Alex and Judd dig into Elmore's return home, how this book may have inspired not just Princess Diana but Oliver North, the (hidden?) connection to other Elmore classic novels, and...
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Dennis Lehane Returns
In Dennis Lehane's return to the podcast, we discuss the book Elmore considers the best crime novel ever written, George V. Higgins masterpiece The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Not only that, we talk about Robert Mitchum, The McGlaughlin Wars, having lunch with Alex Rocco, arguing with Elmore about…
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Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is the creator and showrunner of AMC's Mad Men, which is considered one of the best television shows of all time. It won 15 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama series four years in a row, as well as Emmys for Outstanding Writing, Acting, Casting, Cinematography, and more.…
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Get Shorty, Part Two
GET SHORTY is one of Elmore Leonard's best known and best regarded novels. But after re-reading it, both Alex and Judd believe it is still under appreciated. In Part Two, they track Elmore's breadcrumbs, express appreciation for getting to see more of Ray Bones in the movie than what's in the…
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Get Shorty, Part One
GET SHORTY is one of Elmore Leonard's best known and best regarded novels. But after re-reading it, both Alex and Judd believe it is still under appreciated. In Part One, they dig into how only Elmore could write this book, what inspired it, some of the differences between the book and Barry...
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Eli Cranor: Fiction, Football, and the Fertile Ground of Arkansas
Eli Cranor is the Edgar Award-winning author of Don't Know Tough, as well as Ozark Dogs, Broiler, and most recently Mississippi Blue 42. He is the Arkansas Tech University Writer in Residence, not to mention a Swedish Football Champion. Eli joins us to talk Elmore, fiction, great mentors, and so...
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Michael Connelly
Michael Connelly is one of our great working novelists. His Harry Bosch novels have been published into dozens of languages, and have spawned three television series, BOSCH, BOSCH: LEGACY, and BALLARD (all on Amazon Prime). His novel THE LINCOLN LAWYER has been adapted into a feature film as well...
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Carl Hiaasen
CARL HIAASEN is a best-selling and award-winning author and journalist. His novels include Tourist Season, Strip Tease, Skin Tight and the recently released Fever Beach. Adaptations of his work include Strip Tease (starring Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, and Ving Rhames), Hoot (starring Brie Larson,...
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Pronto
Alex and Judd dive deep into PRONTO - the first book of Elmore Leonard's to feature Raylan Givens, the central character of FX's Justified. They discuss how Elmore auditioned one of his greatest characters, what Raylan cares about most, and also touch on the moral decay and lack of respect among...
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Alex R. Johnson
Alex R. Johnson is an author and filmmaker. His debut novel Brooklyn Motto was published this year and his film Two Step, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. He joins the podcast to talk Elmore and tell us what it's like to jump between film and books, learn from Jonathan Demme, and grow up in a...
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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is one of our great writers. He's written over 60 books, including mysteries, science fiction, short stories and non-fiction. His books have been adapted into films and television shows such as Devil in a Blue Dress, starring Denzel Washington, Jennifer Beals, and Don Cheadle; The...
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Danny Cosmo
Danny Cosmo is a world-record holding high diver and stunt man who has worked on over 170 movies. Cosmo met Elmore during the research phase of TISHOMINGO BLUES, and Elmore based much of his character Dennis on Cosmo's exploits. Cosmo joins us to share what it's like to dive from 96 feet in the...
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Graham Yost
Graham Yost has written or produced some of the best television ever. His work includes Band of Brothers, Boomtown, John Adams, The Pacific, Masters of the Air, The Americans, Slow Horses, and Silo. He is also the Executive Producer and Showrunner of FX's Justified, based on Elmore Leonard's…
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One For The Archives
Before Elmore Leonard died in 2013 he decided that he wanted his archives to live at The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina. This fall, the first Elmore Leonard Exhibit opened and we got to meet two of the people responsible for preserving…
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Otto Penzler
Alex gets an audience with the one and only Otto Penzler, a dear friend of Elmore's and the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City - the oldest mystery specialist book store in America. Having been featured in Comfort to the Enemy and Up In Honey's Room, Otto is also the first...
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Florida Stories Vol. 1, with Bill Leonard and Kristy Lowman
Elmore Leonard has been referred to as the "Dickens of Detroit" but his books are set all over the world. Some of our favorite books of Elmore's, like Split Images, Cat Chaser, La Brava, Maximum Bob, or Rum Punch are set in the great State of Florida. This podcast features conversations with two...
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Split Images
Alex and Judd throw on their cashmere sweaters, plant machetes, and taunt the homicide detectives as they dive deep into Elmore Leonard's SPLIT IMAGES. From ElmoreLeonardOfficial.com: Wealthy industrialist Robbie Daniels has discovered something that gives him even a bigger kick than his palatial...
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Stacey Sher
Stacey Sher is one of our great producers of film and television. In addition to having produced two of what many consider to be the three best feature film adaptations of Elmore's work - GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT, she has also produced Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Gattaca, How High, Django...
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Ace Atkins
Ace Atkins is the best selling author of 30 novels including WICKED CITY, WHITE SHADOW, DON'T LET THE DEVIL RIDE, the upcoming EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD, the Quinn Colson series, the Nick Travers series, and several books in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. He is also our first guest to...
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Freaky Deaky, Part Two
Alex and Judd get out of prison, sneak into the Ricks Mansion and hide dynamite all over 1980s Detroit as they dive deep into what some have called Elmore Leonard's greatest book, FREAKY DEAKY. In Part Two, we sink even deeper into the gray areas, argue about Chris, and hear about the book that...
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Freaky Deaky, Part One
Alex and Judd get out of prison, sneak into the Ricks Mansion and hide dynamite all over 1980s Detroit as they dive deep into what some have called Elmore Leonard's greatest book, FREAKY DEAKY. In Part One, we meet our second favorite novelist Nicole Robinette, try not to mix dynamite and LSD…
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Tom Scharpling
Tom Scharpling is just the greatest. He's an accomplished TV writer/producer (Monk, What We Do in the Shadows, Steven Universe) and the host of the legendary The Best Show. He joins Alex and Judd in Chris's dad's Cadillac to talk FREAKY DEAKY, and what he appreciates most about Elmore. Also, Judd...
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Cuba Libre, Part Two
From the bowels of Morro Prison on Havana Bay, Alex and Judd dive deep into CUBA LIBRE, Elmore Leonard's masterful epic set at the height of tensions that led to The Spanish American War. In Part Two, they get shot by snipers, concoct Elmore Bingo, and Alex shares his thoughts on the Coen…
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Cuba Libre, Part One
From the bowels of Morro Prison on Havana Bay, Alex and Judd dive deep into CUBA LIBRE, Elmore Leonard's masterful epic set at the height of tensions that led to The Spanish American War. In Part 1 they enjoy fine cigars, sort out whether it's better to be a fop or a dandy, all while trying to...
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S.A. Cosby
S.A. COSBY - the best-selling and award winning author of My Darkest Prayer, Razorblade Tears, All the Sinners Bleed, The Rhythm of Time (with Questlove!), joins us to talk Elmore, what's special about Viriginia, Walter Mosely, the greatest 11th grade teacher ever, and his new book, King of…
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Megan Abbott
MEGAN ABBOTT - bestselling author of Dare Me, the Edgar Award-winning Queenpin, Die a Little, and the upcoming El Dorado Drive (a New York Times Summer Book Pick) joins The Elmore Leonard Podcast to discuss carrying on the American hard boiled tradition, tells us what Elmore freed her to do in…
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Out of Sight
From deep within the kitchen of a rotating restaurant in beautiful downtown Detroit, Alex and Judd revisit OUT OF SIGHT - an all time Elmore Leonard classic. They dive deep into the book, discuss Stockholm Syndrome, share some of their own bad life choices, and more in the latest episode of The...
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Scott Frank
Scott Frank is one of the great screenwriters and storytellers of the modern age. Films he has written include Minority Report, Marley & Me, Logan, The Interpreter, and, of course, GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT. Scott wrote and directed The Lookout and A Walk Among the Tombstones, based on the...
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Touch
Revisiting what many consider to be Elmore Leonard's most unusual novel, TOUCH is a revelatory experience for Alex and Judd. Written in 1977 but not published until almost ten years later, it stands out for so many reasons. Hear why it's one of Judd's favorite novels and what Alex thinks Elmore…
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Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is the best-selling and Edgar-award winning author of over a dozen books including A Drink Before the War, World Gone By, and most recently, Small Mercies. Films based on his work include Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, Gone Baby Gone and Live By Night, both directed by…
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Hombre
Alex and Judd sip some mezcal and try to wrangle Elmore's classic western novel HOMBRE (1961), later turned into Paul Newman's classic western film HOMBRE (1967). This book has it all: gunfights, parleys, biblical references, and stolen fortunes. It is one of Elmore's best Western novels, and its...
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Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai is the co-founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a publishing house devoted to hardboiled crime fiction. Hard Case crime titles range from lost noir masterpieces to new novels by today's most powerful writers, all featuring stunning original cover art in the grand pulp style.…
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Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is one of the greatest living graphic designers. He has designed book covers for not just Elmore Leonard, but Michael Crichton, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Anne Rice, David Sedaris, John Updike, James Ellroy, and so many more. He joins us to share a little bit about his approach…
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Michael Siegel
There are few people who have worked with Elmore Leonard as closely as Michael Siegel. While he didn't write the books, Michael was an integral part of several of Elmore's books get turned into some fantastic movies, including Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. He joins Judd to talk about...
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Swag
There were ten rules to recording to this podcast about SWAG - what many Elmore Leonard fans consider their favorite novel, but don't expect Judd and Alex to follow many of them for long. Join them to discuss this amazing book, hear about Elmore's days by the pool, and debate what it was that...
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C.M. Kushins
C.M. Kushins has written acclaimed biographies of music legends Warren Zevon and John Bonham. He has now written about another legend - Elmore Leonard, in the upcoming biography COOLER THAN COOL. He joins Judd to talk about empathy, his time in a Buddhist monastery, and what it's like to not just...
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Rum Punch
Elmore Leonard is one of the great writers of modern fiction. In the inaugural episode of The Elmore Leonard Podcast, your hosts Alex Leonard and Judd Rubin hop on an Islands Air flight take a big swig of RUM PUNCH, and revisit the classic novel. Along the way, we hear about Elmore's fake ID…
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Welcome to The Elmore Leonard Podcast
The Elmore Leonard Podcast explores the work and life of one of our greatest novelists: Elmore Leonard. We will interview those who knew him and his work best, and also dive deep into the novels, the short stories and the invisible threads that tie them together. If you've read the books and seen...
About this show
The Elmore Leonard Podcast explores the work and life of one of our greatest novelists: Elmore Leonard. We will interview those who knew him and his work best, and also dive deep into the novels, the short stories and the invisible threads that tie them together. If you've read the books and seen the adaptations, we've got a lot to talk about. And if you haven't, get to work. Either way, subscribe to The Elmore Leonard Podcast today.
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Elmore Leonard, Inc.