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Michael Zimecki

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Tom Vater

Andrew Nette

Philip Marlowe

Fabian Nicieza

Doug Stanhope

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Karen Neary

Sandra Wells

James Newman

Twist Phelan

Patrick Kelly

Bill Crider

Jenny Milchman

Robert Crais

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This week, the Crime Cafe presents Debbi Mack's interview with crime author Michael Zimecki.Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter so we can provide podcast transcripts. Thanks! :)

This week, the Crime Cafe presents Debbi Mack's interview with crime author Michael Zimecki. Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter so we can provide podcast transcripts. Thanks! :)

Interview with Crime Author Michael Zimecki – S. 4, Ep. 7

Peter “Pop” Popovich is a 24-year-old unemployed glazier, anti-Semite and white supremacist who is pushed over the edge by his chaotic mother, his unresponsive lover, an uncaring stepfather and a right-wing hate machine that tells him liberals want to take away his guns and his liberty. While he waits to be executed for his crimes, “Pop” squibs sentences, whole paragraphs, a novel about life on Death Row in which he reprises the life that landed him there. Death Sentences is loosely based on an incident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in April 2009, when a lone gunman, convinced that the government was coming to take away his guns, had a four-hour standoff with police. This explosive novel, reminiscent of the works of Ed Bunker and Charles Bukowski, is a hellish story from the American underclass, its disenfranchised characters long abandoned by government and society and prone to constant failure and excessive violence. Gripping, personal, cruel and hilarious in turn, Death Sentences gets right under your skin. Michael Zimecki writes fiction, nonfiction and plays while continuing to work as an attorney. Born in inner-city Detroit, he did turns as a steelworker, advertising copywriter, medical editor and teacher before practicing law.Michael has written for Harper's Magazine, The National Law Journal, College English, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications.His novella, The History of My Final Illness, about the last five days in the life of Joseph Stalin, appeared in Eclectica Magazine. A play, Negative Velocity, about atom-bomb father J. Robert Oppenheimer, is a past winner of the New Playwright's Contest of the Fremont Center Theatre, located in South Pasadena, California.Michael lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan. He enjoys traveling outside the United States, swing jazz, fedoras, and Hardboiled fiction.This was a great chance to speak to a truly  brilliant guy - Michael is as witty and entertaining as his work (though, thankfully, not as dark!), and this interview ranges over why there's such a gun culture in the US, through his passion for writing, the importance of reading, and just what a young writer should think about doing.I enjoyed this so much that I didn't want to turn the recorder off....You can find out more about Michael and Death Sentences at:http://www.crimewavepress.com

Peter “Pop” Popovich is a 24-year-old unemployed glazier, anti-Semite and white supremacist who is pushed over the edge by his chaotic mother, his unresponsive lover, an uncaring stepfather and a right-wing hate machine that tells him liberals want to take away his guns and his liberty. While he waits to be executed for his crimes, “Pop” squibs sentences, whole paragraphs, a novel about life on Death Row in which he reprises the life that landed him there. Death Sentences is loosely based on an incident in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in April 2009, when a lone gunman, convinced that the government was coming to take away his guns, had a four-hour standoff with police. This explosive novel, reminiscent of the works of Ed Bunker and Charles Bukowski, is a hellish story from the American underclass, its disenfranchised characters long abandoned by government and society and prone to constant failure and excessive violence. Gripping, personal, cruel and hilarious in turn, Death Sentences gets right under your skin. Michael Zimecki writes fiction, nonfiction and plays while continuing to work as an attorney. Born in inner-city Detroit, he did turns as a steelworker, advertising copywriter, medical editor and teacher before practicing law. Michael has written for Harper's Magazine, The National Law Journal, College English, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, among other publications. His novella, The History of My Final Illness, about the last five days in the life of Joseph Stalin, appeared in Eclectica Magazine. A play, Negative Velocity, about atom-bomb father J. Robert Oppenheimer, is a past winner of the New Playwright's Contest of the Fremont Center Theatre, located in South Pasadena, California. Michael lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife, Susan. He enjoys traveling outside the United States, swing jazz, fedoras, and Hardboiled fiction. This was a great chance to speak to a truly brilliant guy - Michael is as witty and entertaining as his work (though, thankfully, not as dark!), and this interview ranges over why there's such a gun culture in the US, through his passion for writing, the importance of reading, and just what a young writer should think about doing. I enjoyed this so much that I didn't want to turn the recorder off.... You can find out more about Michael and Death Sentences at: <a href="http://www.crimewavepress.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.crimewavepress.com</a>

Death Sentences - Michael Zimecki