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Dedicated with Doug Brunt

Gregg Hurwitz

Dedicated with Doug Brunt

SiriusXM

Over Drinks, Books, Tv & Film, Novels, Lounge, Doug Brunt, Megyn Kelly, Author, Cocktail, Arts, Book

5.0599 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Gregg Hurwitz: gin & tonic Gregg discusses how Evan Smoak (aka Orphan X) stacks up against Reacher and Bourne, the virtues of Batman and Wolverine, the remaining advantages of humanity over artificial intelligence, how the Shakespearean formula applies to the modern thriller, and which thriller writer he considers his North Star.

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Dedicated is expanding. We are now filming our segments. We are doing some slick new video inside

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the Sirius XM studios. So if you want to see me fixing the cocktails and having conversations

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with our awesome guests, go to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or the Sirius XM app, and you can

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see us in studio. Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.

0:22.1

You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some

0:27.0

of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they

0:31.9

discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind-the-scenes revelations.

0:41.2

Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're talking with Greg Hurwitz. He is the New York

0:46.1

Times number one bestselling author of 24 books. He's also a screenwriter, a comic book writer.

0:51.6

He's done work on Batman for DC Comics and Wolverine for Marvel.

0:56.2

He also serves as co-president of international thriller writers. His latest is the ninth book in the

1:02.0

very popular and awesome Orphan X series called Lone Wolf. Greg, it's great to be with you.

1:08.1

Thanks for having me on. It's good to be here. We are lucky to grab you on Thriller Fest week.

1:12.2

So you're in town to, I guess, as co-president of international thriller writers, you're probably putting on a big event this week.

1:18.5

It's so fun.

1:19.4

Yeah, we have Dennis Lehings in from one of our Thriller Masters.

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We have Tess Garrison.

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I'll be interviewing Dennis.

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He's one of my favorites.

1:27.7

And Tess and I go back forever and we got panels. And it's a great event here. It's a little more industry facing because we're in New York. And so we have, you know, agents come in and publishers. And we've started a lot of careers. So it's a very, it's a very cool way for those of us who, you know, came up in the pre-internet era to have a lot more kind of connection and move people along.

1:49.4

It's a very supportive organization.

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Oh, that's cool.

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