Author James Grady

Stopping by the whiskey bar is the only author with the distinction of being compared to Bob Dylan and George Orwell, with his latest book being likened to To Kill a Mockingbird, award-winner James Grady. Best known for his novel SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR, which was famously adapted to film as THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR starring Robert Redford and directed by Sydney Pollack, James shares stories of his time helping to craft the Montana State Constitution, muckraking with investigative journalist Jack Anderson, and reads from his poignant new novel, THE SMOKE IN OUR EYES.

Today’s drinking game: drink whenever we do!

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Welcome to your literary happy hour, Writers Drinking Whiskey, the show where you share a drink with writers from around the globe and you find more than your next read: you find the next AUTHOR you're going to love. Hosted by award-winning author William R. Hincy, the show takes booktube, authortube and booktok to another level with engaging, in-depth, and merrily irreverent conversations with today’s most interesting writers. And for our writers joining us, there's plenty of creative writing tips, fiction writing tricks, and poetry read by the poets.

Bios:
James Grady: James Grady is a longtime author of thrillers, police procedural and espionage novels. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for United States Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana as a staff member.

From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.

James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.

In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.

William R. Hincy: “Some people run from their demons; others sit down and have cocktails with theirs.” William R. Hincy is a man who does and writes about the latter. Having become a writer after deciding it was the only sensible thing for a problem drinker to do, Hincy aspires to use literature to connect society on an emotional level through characters who no longer create messes but have instead become the mess. Between rounds, Hincy has won 3 American Fiction Awards, an International Book Award, and his personal anthology of short fiction WITHOUT EXPIRATION was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews. He now lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and kids, having found solace in the notion that the only things sacred are self and whiskey-winged interludes.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:09 Introducing James Grady
00:09:54 What are we drinking
00:13:17 Where on earth is James Grady
00:17:21 Grady's writing journey
00:26:43 Investigative journalism
00:31:18 Haunting knowledge
00:40:51 What makes a good muckraker
00:45:12 Show don't tell
00:50:52 Writing the (Montana) constitution
00:59:06 Fictional towns
01:00:48 Truth in fiction
01:03:04 Setting as character
01:07:05 On character
01:11:14 Television evangelists
01:16:53 Writing process
01:23:45 Writers block
01:26:45 AI and writing
01:33:21 Six Nights of the Condor
01:40:29 Writing advice
01:42:47 SHOTS
01:53:33 THE SMOKE IN OUR EYES reading
02:01:16 Last Call
02:02:35 Learn more about James Grady

Interested in being a guest? Have a great cocktail recipe and story to share? Fantastic! Contact WRH at contact@williamrhincy.com. We’re currently booking for special episodes and season 2.

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