Andrea Grossman started Writers Bloc in Los Angeles because she wanted to bring her three favorite writers — John le Carré, Philip Roth, and Elmore Leonard — to her stage. She got le Carré, and Dutch. Two out of three ain’t bad.
Andrea describes Dutch as “the nicest guy in the world with an edge. .”His writing, she says, “said the world in a sentence—five words long.”
One of her early event with pairing Dutch with British novelist, essayist, and critic, Martin Amis, a writer obsessed with language. “It was like the hottest ticket in town,” she remembers. “People were selling tickets in front of the theater.” Amis’s publisher even moved his book’s release date up to coincide with Leonard’s.
Andre closes by saying there’s simply “no writer like him.”
