Winters: These two characters are in a diner, which is based loosely on the Lincoln Square Pancake House on Meridian Street in Indianapolis. Why did you decide to open with these characters in this conversation?īen H. The novel opens with a conversation between Jim Dirkson, a free African-American, and Father Barton, a young Irish priest. Marsh: Underground Airlines is set in an alternate present, in which the American Civil War was averted by a compromise and four states still allow slavery. Marsh of Booth to discuss, among other things, his new novel.ĭavid J. Along the way, his journalism appeared in The Chicago Reader, The Nation, In These Times, USA Today, and Huffington Post. Įarlier in his career, Winters was a 2009-2010 fellow of the Dramatists Guild and authored plays for young audiences, such as The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere , A (Tooth) Fairy Tale, and Uncle Pirate , as well as plays for not-young audiences-the 2008 off-Broadway musical Slut and the jukebox musical Breaking Up Is Hard to Do. Finkleman, The Mystery of the Missing Everything, and The New York Times bestselling novel Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Winters’ other books include The Secret Life of Ms. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction.
The first won the Edgar Award in 2012 the second was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and winner of the Philip K.
He is widely known as the author of The Last Policeman trilogy, a series of sci-fi detective thrillers that includes The Last Policeman, Countdown City, and World of Trouble. Winters' new novel is titled Underground Airlines. You've tapped the energy, but also the generosity, and the focus – the literary passions of the man.īen H.
And his answer comes, it rolls out with conviction and joy, and it's what you hoped for. He runs a hand through his trimmed, thick dark hair, gives a simple introductory nod of understanding, of anticipation, perhaps an "OK", or "Right," and then he is off. The energy – always pulsing through his boyish frame – seems to ball up, to gather. Behind his sincere smile there is no evidence that he is thinking about his answer as you speak only listening. When you're asking him a question he looks right at you.
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