Get Shorty at 30: Dennis Lehane on Elmore Leonard's Hollywood satire

The late, great Elmore "Dutch" Leonard is one of my favorite writers and Get Shorty is one of his best crime novels.


The Guardian offers Dennis Lehane's fine introduction to the Folio Society Edition of Elmore Leonard’s Get Shorty on the novel’s 30^th anniversary. 

 
You can read the piece via the below link:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/26/pitch-perfect-get-shorty-at-30-elmore-leonard-dennis-lehane 

   You can also read my Crime Beat column on Elmore Leonard via the below link:

www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/05/return-to-elmoreland-elmore-leonards.html 

And you can read my friend and former editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer Frank Wilson's piece on Elmore Leonard via the below link:

 https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/20121111_Crime_paid_this_writer__in_dollars_
and_honors.html