At the Santa Fe Literary Festival the bestselling crime writer tells Kevin E G Perry about what mobsters have in common with classical mythology, social media skirmishes and why the left needs to reclaim patriotism
Years later, having set himself the task of reading the great classics of literature, Winslow was struck by how neatly the mob warfare he remembered from his youth could be transposed onto Homer’s“I came to the classics rather later in life than one normally does, I guess, and I was struck by how similar those stories were to real life crime stories in America,” he explains. “All the freaking themes that we deal with, in my genre, the Greeks had already done.
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