Dan Barden

  • About
  • Reviews
    • Kirkus
    • The Fix
    • The Atlantic
    • Three Guys One Book
    • Washington Post
  • Talks on Writing
    • first talk: the BEING of writing
    • second talk: showing and telling
    • third talk: desire and obstacles
    • fourth talk: creating a world from language
    • fifth talk: look who’s talking
    • sixth talk: plain and fancy
    • seventh talk: finishing a first draft
    • eighth talk: making it better
    • ninth talk: workshops
  • John Wayne: A Novel

 

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Advance praise for The Next Right Thing

"Dan Barden's The Next Right Thing is The Long Goodbye in rehab. It's fierce and funny and absolutely worthy of its predecessors - like them, Barden's hard-boiled tale is really an inquiry into male love and grief, and the state of the American heart." -- Jonathan Lethem

"The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new." -- George Pelecanos