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Jordan Harper has written for The Mentalist, Gotham and now he's doing LA Confidential for CBS. He's also the author of the (very good novel) She Rides Shotgun.

Here's all the stuff we talk about in the episode:

the internet is a mistake

netflix algorithms

small action vs. going big

getting involved in local politics

becoming unsexy and boring

Ryan Holiday’s new book

writing slow and allowing creativity to come to you

the failure of grinding

Fresh

not putting the work in if it’s not fun

Twin Peaks as permission to do whatever you want

duos with one weird, crazy genius and one hitmaker

The Complete Beatles Songs: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Beatles-Songs-Stories-Written/dp/0062447343

the making of The Snake Handler

Rob Hart’s Ash McKenna series

Michael Mann’s “cool coordinator” invented Miami as we know it

Good Time’s soundtrack vs. it’s grit

90’s crime films were fun

Grittiness

David Simon’s cringey dialogue

enjoying monologues

Ronin

political climate determining the entertainment

people wanting to see themselves in entertainment

how intellectual property is EVERYTHING

his adaptation of LA Confidential for CBS

TV insider shit

too many books

new authors caring very little about authorial credit

copypasta

not wanting the best book, wanting the most fun book

HHhH

A Long Nerd-Out on James Ellroy

The amount of violence he’s getting away with on this show

Do our interests line up with what books are doing now?

writing in the age of Trump

novelist is an old man’s game

reconciling effective regressive tropes with social justice

Message from the King

crash course on anarchy

Jared from Subway

The Butterfly Effect

don’t give shit away for free