![]() ![]() What’s it like to have your book turned into a Netflix film? We spoke about his career change, how he writes and what it’s like to have a debut novel turned into a small-screen hit. Among the eviscerating stories of grinding poverty, domestic violence and twisted religious belief Pollock’s work manages to involve remarkable depth of character. Those who encountered his first efforts were astonished with the raw talent on the page. ![]() Pollock’s compellingly human American noir novels have won reams of awards and earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship – an unexpected turn of events for a man who spent nearly 30 years working in the local paper mill before deciding, at 45, to take up writing. It’s the same voice that I hear down the phone when I call Pollock at home in Ross County, Ohio – where Netflix film is set, and where the author has lived his whole life. ![]() These are Pollock’s words, but Antonio Campos’s critically acclaimed adaptation of his book has allowed us to hear them in his voice for the first time. “Four-hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957,” a voice rich in Appalachian husk explains over images of bare trees and secluded wooden buildings, “nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.” The opening lines of new Netflix crime thriller, The Devil All The Time, will be very familiar if you’ve read the Donald Ray Pollock novel it’s based on. ![]()
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