Dennis Lehane

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🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dennis Lehane: Chopin vodka over crushed ice Can't say I loved this drink, but it grew on me (a little) over the course of our conversation. Dennis discusses his book to film experiences with his novels MYSTIC RIVER, SHUTTER ISLAND, GONE BABY GONE, LIVE BY NIGHT and working with Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio; how his life changed dramatically with the smash success of MYSTIC RIVER in 2001, making his bones writing in the 1990s while competing with and congratulating his contemporaries and friends Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Harlan Coben; how he approaches teaching fiction-writing to Harvard students and what students can expect to learn from him, how a show gets made beginning with the option of the book rights all the way to the show appearing on the small screen - using the example of Black Bird for which he was showrunner, and the number one thing a person must have to be a good writer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt. You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:24.7	Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host doug brunt today we're talking with dennis lehain his 1994 debut novel a drink before the war
0:30.2	won the shameless award for best first p i novel he's gone on to write more than a dozen novels
0:35.4	winning numerous literary awards and some of the novels getting made into films that you know.
0:40.1	Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood, Shutter Island by Scorsese, On Baby Gone, Live by Night, both by Ben Affleck.
0:47.9	He's also had enormous success developing and writing for TV.
0:51.5	He's written episodes for The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Mr. Mercedes,
0:55.0	and more recently Blackbird. Dennis, there's so much to talk about. Welcome to the show.
0:59.9	Oh, thanks for having me. It's great. So your drink choice for today is Chopin vodka on crush ice.
1:08.3	Yes. I managed to, I'm just putting some ice. I think I'm going to go with a lot of ice on this. I managed to... I'm just putting some...
1:12.5	I think I'm going to go with a lot of ice on this.
1:14.1	I managed to find a bottle of this.
1:15.3	I'd never heard of this kind of vodka before.
1:18.2	Well, it's funny because normally I go with something called beluga, but it's Russian, so I've got to support the...
1:26.6	This is the Polish. Okay. Yeah, okay yeah so all right well uh vodka on ice is a strong car I may have to
1:33.6	muscle this down a little bit but I'm gonna give it a shot take your time it's sipping it's
1:36.8	about sipping it's sipping it's sipping vodka yeah see that is good that's good smooth
1:42.5	all right I found a new vodka I've been I don't drink a lot of but when I do, it's usually Tito's, but I'm going to try this now. Okay. So starting at the beginning of Mr. Lehane, you're a New Englander, born in Dorchester, Mass, near Boston, youngest of five, and both your parents emigrated from Ireland. Yes.
2:01.4	What was, what were the early days like in the Lahane household?
2:05.3	It was, it was like being in Ireland.
2:07.2	It was, we was surrounded by, my, my mother and my father's siblings and in-laws.
2:15.7	So they both came from enormous families.
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