Author Dennis Lehane says he has always loved the clothes, cars and movies of the Prohibition era, which might be why he has set his new novel there. Live By Night doesn’t tell the usual Prohibition story about whiskey smugglers â instead it heads south to Florida for a gritty tale of rumrunning.
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Interview: Dennis Lehane, Author Of ‘Live By Night,’ Prohibition Gangster Thriller | NPR
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Dennis Lehane: Between Dorchester Ave and Sunset Boulevard
Dennis Lehane so rules the neighborhood of Noir (“Nwaaah,” as we say in Boston) that he gets street credit for work he didn’t write, like “The Departed” and “The Town.” But does the author of “Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone” and the new Moonlight Mile get credit enough for a body of artistic work now far beyond private-eye or “genre” of any kind — way beyond his gift for Boston-accented dialog?