Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus — big fan of Charles Willeford — popped me a note about an interview with Willeford that appeared on YouTube somewhat recently.
Don’t think I’d seen that one before. Shows the quiet or professorial Willeford, he doesn’t really get off into some of his schtick — understandable, he’s promoting Sideswipe, only has a few minutes. Commercial TV.
He is lying like hell, though. Completely convincing. Makes it sound as if he has so much personal backstory and history of Hoke Moseley he just had to keep the novels going after Miami Blues, when in real life he was dragged kicking and screaming by his agent into doing more of those books.
If you’re a Willeford fan, worth checking out — and while you’re there you can track down a few others. Get your Willeford in.
