Feb 6, 2019
Duke
Haney is the guest. His new essay collection,
Death Valley Superstars, is
available now from Delancey Street Press.
Haney has spent most of his adult life working in the movie
business, with twenty feature-film credits as an actor and
twenty-two as a screenwriter. He used pseudonyms for some of
the screenplays and went by “D. R. Haney” as the author of a novel,
Banned for Life, and an essay collection,
Subversia. After he was struck by a car in a crosswalk on
Sunset Boulevard, a friend claimed he walked like John “Duke” Wayne
and gave him the nickname by which most people know him and he has
adopted belatedly as his pen name. He plans to follow Death
Valley Superstars with a novel tentatively
titled XXX.
This is Duke's second time on the podcast. He first appeared
in Episode
36 on January 18, 2012.
In today's monologue, I talk a bit about witnessing the birth
of Duke's book.