The Craft of Fiction: Lee Child and Andy Martin in Conversation

[@larrybone4065]

Great Interview. One of the very cool things about Jack Reacher novels is that the 24 of them comprise Reacher's life and the characters in one novel show up again in the next or later novels and readers find out a little more about Reacher and more about some of these truly amazing secondary characters. And two of the short stories are about how Reacher grew up but so true to what sort of adult he became in the later novels.

[@TunezCottage]

Hey interviewer, Don't interview someone if you have strep. Don't interrupt the interviewee and force your thoughts on them. Don't ask yes or no questions. But most importantly, practice first- because it's clear you have no idea what you're doing.

[@andrewjordan4103]

It begins at 5:19

[@raskarl]

thank you so much for that

[@andrewjordan4103]

@@raskarl You're welcome!

[@steveocal1]

Interesting tht the interviewer waits until he puts the mic up to his mouth that he clears his throat and the rest of the time he sits there, throat uncleared.

[@shanefanon]

The Merc Cafe in Jamestown, Colorado needs Lee Child to speak there !

[@sebastianantonelli1563]

Thank you for the wonderful evening and for sharing this video. You are both very generous and wonderful people. Cheers and hope to see you soon.

[@philsmith6169]

Sebastian A

[@johnf4659]

I'm five minutes in, is the interviewer clearing his throat every few words for the whole interview?

[@kathyyoung1774]

This interviewer has his own ideas about Child’s motivation that Child doesn’t share. Then he asks NO follow up questions! Poor interview! He needs to shut up and let Child talk.

[@fredlifsitz7411]

Who is the interviewee here? Oy! Lee Child is terribly trapped on stage with this guy.

[@holistic7980]

"300 books a year"! Wow respect.

[@lazking3191]

That's 1-2 books a day... That shit's crazy

[@coldwinter4959]

There’s 365 days in the year, silly 😂

[@timothyshaw5498]

holistic79 he’s (Lee Child) always said the basic requirement to be a writer is to first be a reader.

[@casanovafrankenstein5228]

@@timothyshaw5498 makes sense.

[@kathyyoung1774]

Some of us do read that much.

[@moonlightmelodrama]

The interviewer is annoying.

[@cassandragunkel6101]

Agreed.

[@Algabatz]

Long questions ...

[@lajo_jose]

I wonder what's the need of that laptop and projector? Wasted lots of valuable time