Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale5/25/2023 Tim Bryant, a Nacogdoches crime writer who studied screenwriting under Lansdale, swears that his former professor is the “friendliest, most down-to-earth” man that he’s ever known. When he walks into any of his familiar haunts-the Starbucks on North Street, the Japanese restaurant Nijiya, the General Mercantile and Oldtime String Shop-he addresses employees by name, inquires about their lives, and leaves pretty much everyone smiling. He offers advice to aspiring writers-on his Facebook page, in emails, in person. He runs a local martial arts school at a loss. An avuncular 64-year-old with piercing blue eyes, a Matterhorn nose, and a slightly crooked grin, Lansdale is a big-hearted pillar of the Nacogdoches community, a still-smitten husband to his wife of four decades, and a proud-as-pie dad of two children. Lansdale-author of more than 45 novels and 400 short stories, essays, comic books, and screenplays, ranging in genre from historical fiction to grind-house pulp-is a hell of a nice guy, maybe the nicest in East Texas. Let’s clear up one thing before we begin: Joe R.
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