RogerHobbs
1988 - 2016
On Camera
Roger Hobbs on Video
Interviews, readings, and reflections — in his own voice.
ROGER HOBBS ON VIDEO
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Roger Hobbs — Author Interview
Everybody is obsessed with building a public persona. I wanted to disappear into the work — to let the prose do the talking and let the writer become a kind of ghost.
On Crime Writing
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On Writing Crime Fiction
Film noir has a really terrific dialogue style — clipped, observed, faintly cruel. You can hear the cigarette in the line. I wanted my prose to feel like that.
On Film Noir
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The Criminal Mind
I don't seem like the criminal type. But I am, and so are you. Everybody has the capacity. The interesting question is what stops you — or what doesn't.
On Criminality
THE RESEARCH PROCESS
On the deep web, on the secret web, on the encrypted web, I found websites where I could chat with hit men. You can buy everything online -- from sex, to guns, to bombs, to poisons, to every possible drug you could imagine - even antibiotics."