{"id":14068,"date":"2014-08-28T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T04:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=14068"},"modified":"2014-08-28T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T04:29:43","slug":"bonus-episode-conversation-with-gregg-sutter-about-elmore-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/08\/28\/bonus-episode-conversation-with-gregg-sutter-about-elmore-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonus Episode: Conversation with Gregg Sutter about Elmore Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14076\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/08\/28\/bonus-episode-conversation-with-gregg-sutter-about-elmore-leonard\/elmore-leonard-1970s\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?fit=340%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"340,530\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Elmore-Leonard-1970s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?fit=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?fit=340%2C530&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14076\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s-192x300.jpg?resize=192%2C300\" alt=\"Elmore-Leonard-1970s\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?fit=340%2C530&amp;ssl=1 340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>Welcome to the Mookse and the Gripes Podcast. Trevor here with a special bonus episode, stepping away from NYRB Classics for a bit to look at some other things of interest.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, I will be having a conversation with Gregg Sutter. The occasion? Well, today, August 28, marks the publication of the Library of America\u2019s newest edition: Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1970s, which was edited by Gregg. But Gregg isn\u2019t your typical editor. He isn\u2019t an Elmore Leonard scholar\u2014no, he knows a lot more about Elmore Leonard than any scholar ever will. In 1981, Leonard hired Gregg to be his full-time researcher, a job Gregg held until Leonard\u2019s death just over a year ago, on August 20, 2013, a job that you can read a bit about in a <em>New Yorker<\/em> piece from the September 30, 1996 issue, t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1996\/09\/30\/elmores-legs\" target=\"_blank\">he abstract of which you can find here<\/a>. Gregg will also tell you more about this in a minute, as well as share what other Elmore Leonard projects he\u2019s currently working on.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to talk with him. I have to admit that, though I\u2019ve considered myself an Elmore Leonard fan for years, it\u2019s because of the movies adapted from his work, going back to 1957\u2019s <em>3:10 to Yuma<\/em>, one of my favorite westerns, through an amazing run in the 1990s with Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, and Out of Sight. This volume, which features four novels from the 1970s &#8212; <em>Fifty-Two Pickup<\/em>, <em>Swag<\/em>, <em>Unknown Man No. 89<\/em>, and <em>The Switch<\/em> (which, incidentally, has just been adapted into a movie called <em>Life of Crime<\/em>, coming out tomorrow) &#8212; is my first experience with Leonard\u2019s actual novels, and it\u2019s been fantastic! We\u2019ll talk a bit about why with Gregg Sutter.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, though, I want to highly recommend that you go pick up this volume.<\/p>\n<p>And now, on with the show.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14068-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/MookseBonus006.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/MookseBonus006.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/mookse\/MookseBonus006.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, The Library of America is releasing <em>Elmore Leonard: Four Novels of the 1970s<\/em>, which features <em>Fifty-Two Pickup<\/em>, <em>Swag<\/em>, <em>The Unknown Man No. 89<\/em>, and <em>The Switch<\/em>. This is the first of three planned volumes. In this bonus episode of The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast, Trevor interviews the volume&#8217;s editor, Gregg Sutter, who was Elmore Leonard&#8217;s researcher from 1981 until Mr. Leonard&#8217;s death on August 20, 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2014\/08\/28\/bonus-episode-conversation-with-gregg-sutter-about-elmore-leonard\/\"><u>Read the shownotes and listen the podcast<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bonus Episode: Conversation with Gregg Sutter about Elmore Leonard http:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-3EU","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Elmore-Leonard-1970s.jpg?fit=340%2C530&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-3EU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14082,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions\/14082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}