Author: Alex Irvine
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Publishers Weekly Review of Buyout
Buyout Alexander C. IrvineDel Rey, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-49433-7 In this neat, high-concept thriller, Irvine (The Narrows) introduces us to L.A. in the year 2040, where global warming and high-tech identity theft are daily facts of life. Martin Kindred, a mid-level insurance executive, works for a company pioneering a radical new prison cost-cutting program.…
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Interview at Horrornews.net
There’s no direct link,* but if you go to the main site and then click on the Interviews tab, you’ll find it. A wide-ranging chat, focused on Supernatural but incorporating various other projects as well. Plus it includes a swell photo of me wearing five different colors of nail polish. *Edit: Here’s the direct link.
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DD Noir #2 Solicit
DAREDEVIL NOIR #2 (of 4)Written by ALEXANDER IRVINEPencils & Cover by TOM COKERVariant Cover by DENNIS CALERO “LIAR’S POKER,” PART 2 The latest addition to Marvel’s red-hot Noir line offers a unique spin on the Man Without Fear! Prohibition-era Hell’s Kitchen is no place to be a blind man, but it’s tailor-made for a vigilante.…
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Mediabistro Interview at NYCC
Here’s 87 seconds of me talking about writing as part of a longer conversation with Galleycat‘s excellent Jason Boog. Pardon how goofy I look. http://www.viddler.com/player/d4817ae1/ “Lifestyles of the 21st Century Writer”: that would be a good title for a reality show.
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Criminal Justice and the Markets
One of the big ideas (perhaps Big Ideas) behind my next novel, Buyout, is what happens when the criminal justice and prison systems get entangled with market imperatives. Private prisons, responding to the stimuli that all private enterprise responds to, put new and difficult pressures on police and courtrooms because when you’re a private prison…
Crooked House Fictions 